 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 984 pages
...Have married in June! This is the wall? Right! Vive la Commune!" BY THOMAS JEFFERSON (See page 228) THE tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. &ljifttnrj fecenca BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL (American editor and Socialist lecturer, born 1860. In... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - 1916 - 222 pages
...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...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." These letters, it must be remembered, were written before the passage of the Alien and Sedition Law.... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 500 pages
...we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signify a few lives lost? . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."1 In a similar strain he alined himself with the philosophical anarchists. "The basis of our... | |
 | Newell LeRoy Sims - 1917 - 372 pages
...countries can preserve their liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. But today the American people share neither the fear of their forefathers regarding change nor Jefferson's... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1917 - 604 pages
...rebellion every twenty years to warn rulers that the people have preserved the spirit of resistance. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed, from time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * "Were there but an Adam & an Eve left in every country, & left free, it would be better than as it... | |
 | Wilmer Carlyle Harris - 1917 - 198 pages
...Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr. Chandler's speech of March 2 was a powerful one.6 He began it with a vigorous defense of the 4.... | |
 | 1917 - 198 pages
...Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr. Chandler's speech of March 2 was a powerful one.6 He began it with a vigorous defense of the 4.... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 368 pages
...mattered little. "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 346 pages
...years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to tune with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took... | |
 | John Murray Gibbon - 1922 - 324 pages
...had departed, ostensibly to take a position in Chicago. A note was left for Walter. This read: — "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." — Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence."... | |
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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. 
