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, June 22, 2024
Honjō Shigenaga Parrying an Exploding Shell (Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1848-50)
Unfortunately, it appears to have already blown off his right leg.
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