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.
Excellent illustration!
ReplyDeleteThe Grimms wrote a story about a blonde that rides around on a dragon?
ReplyDeleteI would like to meet the lady who modeled for that...
ReplyDeletethe "beautiful woman" in NC Wyeth's illustrations is always* his wife at the age when he courted her.
Delete*so I read