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.
Such a beautiful aircraft.
ReplyDeleteTruly. Ultimate in form follows function.
Delete...and STILL the fastest manned aircraft ever flown. SR-71 There ... is ,,, no ... substitute.
ReplyDeleteImagine being Bob Gilliland, the first guy to strap that thing on and goose the throttles. What a rush that must have been.
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