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.
The knife looks dull.
ReplyDeleteThat knife looks like a big clam knife. Maybe used to get snails out of their shells?
ReplyDeleteTypical Frenchman: he has the sharpened edge pointed inwards.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonder Napoleon ever got off his home turf.