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.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Wrought-iron 16th century Indian 38-pounder cannon, taken as war spoil by the Portuguese and known as the “Malacca Piece”.
"You can go a long way with gunpowder. You can go a lot farther with shrewdness and gunpowder".
From a portuguese guy that was actually next to that very cannon, and many others, in Lisbon´s "Museu Militar a couple of months ago. Time well spent indeed!
But what really wonders me these days is what passes as shrewdness in our so called leaders minds in the west. As all the gun powder from the XVI century I´m afraid it is all spent and gone.
Makes you wonder how first the Portuguese then the Brits were able to beat them.
ReplyDeleteDeliberately misquoting Al Capone…
ReplyDelete"You can go a long way with gunpowder. You can go a lot farther with shrewdness and gunpowder".
From a portuguese guy that was actually next to that very cannon, and many others, in Lisbon´s "Museu Militar a couple of months ago. Time well spent indeed!
But what really wonders me these days is what passes as shrewdness in our so called leaders minds in the west.
As all the gun powder from the XVI century I´m afraid it is all spent and gone.