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, October 11, 2026
Yuri Gagarin with Sergei Korolev, engineers and a representative Soviet politburo _ , Baikonur cosmodrome, April 12, 1961. ( B. Kobanehko artist )
"What you do today, Yuri, you do for MOTHER RUSSIA!"
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