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.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
A view of Ortenberg Castle with Olga von Moltke drawing a landscape, oil on panel, 1848 by Alexandra von Berckholtz (German, 1821-1899)
What an evocative painting. Very nice.
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