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.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Great beards of old.
Tsar Nicolas II, his beard, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna.
Tatiana is surprisingly fetching for a Grand Duchess.
The Czar and his beard ended badly, but not BECAUSE of the beard.
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