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, February 18, 2015
Bell X-1A
Major Arthur W. “Kit” Murray poses with his X-1A, 4 June 1954, back in the day when the country knew how to push the envelope with boldness and courage.
I wonder how he feels about the current need to use Russian spacecraft to leave the planet?
ReplyDeleteGuaranteed - he is not happy.
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