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.
That's a good reason for the Lion Gate and the various stones carved into lions in Greece. On the other hand that would make one wonder what the natural range of Gorgons was back in the same timeframe. :)
Didn't Phillip of Macedon kill a lion with a javelin?
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ReplyDeleteThat's a good reason for the Lion Gate and the various stones carved into lions in Greece. On the other hand that would make one wonder what the natural range of Gorgons was back in the same timeframe. :)
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