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.
Imagine the labor and capital that went into building that wall, now imagine the threat that made spending that on the wall a necessity. We are living in the good years!
Possible enemies; The French, other cities, and anyone invading Italy from the North. About sixty miles from the sea, so Moorish slave raiders not as common, but never out of the question. They hit Iceland for gods sake! How did they even know how to find it?
Monteriggioni, Italy according to google - Nemo
ReplyDeleteImagine the labor and capital that went into building that wall, now imagine the threat that made spending that on the wall a necessity.
ReplyDeleteWe are living in the good years!
Possible enemies; The French, other cities, and anyone invading Italy from the North. About sixty miles from the sea, so Moorish slave raiders not as common, but never out of the question. They hit Iceland for gods sake! How did they even know how to find it?
ReplyDeleteBoy! Do I love Italy!!!
ReplyDeleteEven a thousand years ago they knew that walls kept out the invaders.
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