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.
Jim Clark and Colin Chapman?
ReplyDeleteJim Clark and John Surtees, I think.
DeleteAnd then he had to drive the entire race with a crick in his neck. (You think like that when you're old.)
ReplyDeleteJim Clark fer sure. Esso sponsored him. Ran an Exxon distributorship years ago. Exxon rep told me Esso stood for "Every Sucker Stops Once".
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