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.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Golden Gauntlet, Henri III of France’s armour (detail), c.1550
Gawd! Given the tech at the time, who knows how many man hours was spent just making that gauntlet.
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