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" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 269
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Notes on History: The constitutional history of the United States, Volume 9

Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 pages
...its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. . . . The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to...patriots and tyrants : it is its natural manure." (Dwight's Character of Jefferson, 134, 82-112.) But, as president, he saw the impossibility of putting...
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Thomas Jefferson

John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 pages
...honorably conducted ? . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." It shakes one's faith in mankind to find a really great statesman uttering such folly ! It had not...
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The New England Magazine

1890 - 726 pages
...rebellion now and then is a good thing. God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without one. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." It is impossible to think that Jefferson meant this exactly seriously ; but it shows the trend of his thought....
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Notes on Thomas Jefferson

Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 192 pages
...resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." CHAPTER XX. SOME EVIDENCE OF HIS INSINCERITY. A CLOSE observer of men has remarked, " Beware of him,...
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A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery ..., Volume 4

William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1892 - 814 pages
...questioned till party cunning 1 " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without each a [Shays] rebellion What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." — Jtfferson't Works, vol. ii., p. 267. 1814.] THE REMEDY OF DISUNION. 227 managed to confuse a proposition...
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American Constitutional Law, Volume 1

John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 744 pages
...warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrectioti of Massachusetts, and on the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the...
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The United States: An Outline of Political History, 1492-1871

Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 pages
...forbid," he cried, " that we should be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signified a few lives lost in a century or two. The tree of...to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants : it was its natural manure." He affected to believe that the Indians who had no government at all were...
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Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Issue 2

Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 pages
...should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion * • « What signifies a few lives lost in а century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Franklin wrote to Dr. Shipley before Shay's Bebellion; Jefferson writes after it. The different view...
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The Alumni Bulletin

1911 - 666 pages
...sacrifice to procure. But it does not follow that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" or that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the contrary, there can be no liberty worthy of the name without security of life and property....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 75

1897 - 520 pages
...its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? .... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." And again : " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,...
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