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, May 18, 2024
Foreign butterflies - James Duncan, Sir William Jardine - 1858
Victorian coloring book.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed the artist had enough of a sense of humor to add the hungry lizard. The butterfly on the left isn't long for this world.
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