“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.
“What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? 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. It is its natural manure.”
Sadly, the blood of patriots is a necessary ingredient. From environmental protection to civil rights to labor rights to women’s suffrage to the Civil War to the Revolutionary War the blood of patriots was shed. Tyrants ensure this happens.
“What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? 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 andtyrants. It is its natural manure.”Sadly, the blood of patriots is a necessary ingredient. From environmental protection to civil rights to labor rights to women’s suffrage to the Civil War to the Revolutionary War the blood of patriots was shed. Tyrants ensure this happens.