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.
But would you want to go to war in one?
ReplyDeleteSure, it would be better than being in the trenches. The Sopwith Snipe was the successor to the Camel and could out dogfight the Fokker DVII.
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Didn't air-ace Snoopy prefer the Sopwith Pup though?
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