"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?" - Thomas Jefferson.
The other day Nancy Pelosi looked visibly shaken and said, "This kind of rhetoric was very frightening and it created a climate in which violence took place." She was speaking in response to the fact that Rep. Joe Wilson had the audacity to say, "You lie," to the President of the United States in public. She was noting how this sort of thing has lead to violence in the past.
Right or wrong, I think Rep. Pelosi is finally beginning to get the message. The next sentence in Thomas Jefferson's quote is, "Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the 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."
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