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.
The French do have THAT, don't they?
ReplyDeleteTout est pardonné!
ReplyDeleteMais oui!
DeleteThis is incredibly sad to me, face too young, eyes too old...
ReplyDeleteInteresting take. On the other hand, the French are famously urban and worldly.
DeleteAhem, Urbane is what I meant to spell
DeleteStriking lips.
ReplyDeleteAnd hair, and sense of style. Girls weren't quite like that when I was a young man.
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