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.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The Raid is On. The Landing of the Danes by Henry Justice Ford illustration from ‘The History of England’ by Rudyard Kipling, 1911
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