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.
Hermannstadt is today Sibiu in Transilvania, Romania. The two characters are Romanian shepherds. The author-photograph has published an atlas of popular figures from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s
Hermannstadt is today Sibiu in Transilvania, Romania. The two characters are Romanian shepherds. The author-photograph has published an atlas of popular figures from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s
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