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.
Monday, March 11, 2024
“Harvest Time” Stanley Roy Badmin 1955 Illustration from Farm Crops in Britain by Sir George Stapledon.
'England' not 'Britain. These people never mean 'Britain!'
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the work of the great American painter, Thomas Hart Benton.
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