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.
Back in the late 1970's and early 80's I use to get a thrill watching the Brit typhoons near Inverness Scotland. They'd pop up from behind a mountain and scream near Mach 1 low-level south to north over Loch Ness
What would the ancient druids, living up in the Welch highlands, have thought of that?
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DeleteBack in the late 1970's and early 80's I use to get a thrill watching the Brit typhoons near Inverness Scotland. They'd pop up from behind a mountain and scream near Mach 1 low-level south to north over Loch Ness
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