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.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: Wooden ships and Iron men.
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DeleteThe Mosquito was my favorite British aircraft of WW2. The Bristol Beaufighter came in second after that - then the Spit.
VERY neat!
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