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.
"Up, up the long, delirious burning blue...". We learned this poem in school! Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteHeard this twice, 25 years apart, at pilot funerals
ReplyDeleteThe video used to play on our PBS station every morning at 0500, right after the national anthem and the university's alma mater.
ReplyDeleteOne of my fondest memories....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=980iFjPDDxU
"footless halls of air"
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