And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
They say that firewood warms you twice.
ReplyDeleteOnce when you cut and split it ... and then when you fire it.
True we heated with wood til I was grown.
ReplyDeleteI tap wedges(s) into the major crack and use the back end of a splitting maul or a sledgehammer
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