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.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Somebody was fascinated by pretty rocks
Crown of the Holy Roman Empire ( which was famously said to be neither holy, Roman, nor an empire), circa late 10th century.
Part of the scrinium (a chest for books or papers) of Charlemagne
If I had it, I'd sell it and buy a Pilatus Porter and a remote cabin in the mountains somewhere.
ReplyDeleteExcellent plan.
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