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.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
A fragment of the armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503-1564). Kunz Lochner (Nuremberg, 1510-1567), Nuremberg, dated 1549.
It appears that he's wielding a bratwurst, they can be deadly in the wrong hands.
ReplyDeleteWhen craft man ship was a real steady job, today far and few to do work like this.
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