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.
Monday, September 1, 2025
John Little (Canadian, 1928-2024), Rue O'Connell Angle St-Simon, in Disappearing Quebec, 1968. Oil on canvas,
"Disappearing Quebec", I'm familiar with places that are no longer there...
ReplyDeleteExcellent rendition of old days.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman from Canada.
ReplyDelete'cept for the fwench on the one building it could be my hometown
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