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.
World War I?
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteEmpire needs men... to feed to the lions?
ReplyDeleteYoung lions? Those are Lionesses.
I thought the old lion drives out the young loins so he can have all the lionesses to himself.
WW1 Brits were really crappy at metaphors.
The artist appears unaware that adult lions without manes are...lionesses.
ReplyDeleteRe-visiting this comment I see I missed Genericviews' observation to the same effect. Oh well:-P.
Deleteno no, he's offering his sisters to the lions that come to fight with him.
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