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.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
John William Godward (English, 1861-1922) Tranquillity, 1914
Tranquillity? Wait, there's a heat wave in Europe, maybe it's, 'So effing hot, just finish the darn painting, Johnny!'
ReplyDeleteHow can you achieve Tranquility when you’re sitting on a hard marble bench.
ReplyDeleteShe too is sitting there waiting for the Republicans to actually do something.
ReplyDeletePainted just as the insanity of WWI was getting started!
ReplyDeleteGotta wonder how many white feathers that model handed out.
DeleteJohnny liked the ladies.
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