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.
He's not coming home, who will protect and provide for us?
ReplyDeleteA sad story from the eons.
Sad indeed....
DeleteMy mom was 4 months pregnant with me, and had a 3-year-old, when my dad was killed in France with Patton. The gloom covered the house always.
Lovely illustration.
ReplyDeleteWho's the artist?
ReplyDeleteCarl Larsson
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