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.
All of Barbara Tuchman's books are worth a read.
ReplyDeleteI echo what LL said, she was a superb historian and writer.
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ReplyDeleteIt was a great companion to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on the Great War.
ReplyDeleteI'll add my endorsement to those of LL and OldAFSarge. She is out and away my favorite historian.
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