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.
Sometimes you wonder if the guy that is the hottie in the painting just got a better artist...
ReplyDeleteMen raised hard in hard times. The artist captured the look in their eyes very well.
ReplyDeleteDoes this ermine make me look fat?
ReplyDeleteTheir reply to the cease and desist demand of Sultan Mehmed IV is a literary masterpiece.
ReplyDeletePart of my heritage.
ReplyDeleteThe Cossack people were almost exterminated from 192 to 1947.
By the Jewish Soviet power... Marxists
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