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.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
French Morane biplane on the Esquennoy aerodrome, 24 August 1916.
Back when aeroplanes were flimsy and men died like real men...
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DeleteAirplanes are still flimsy: I work on them. And dead is dead: real men survive.
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