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.
Only trouble with this painting is that they are rowing in the wrong direction. As shown they are rowing directly into the sinking ship.
ReplyDeleteNever mind my comment above. I didn't see the men in the ratlines.
ReplyDeleteMotto "you don't have to come back, but you have to go out".
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