 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let these take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts,...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. (To Stephens Smith, written in Paris, 1787. F. IV., 467.) RECIPROCITY IN TRADE. — I should say then... | |
 | John Watson Foster - 1900 - 556 pages
...each State. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? . . . What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure ; " and he refers to the Constitution as " a kite set up to keep the hen-yard in order." 2 Such language... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1901 - 458 pages
...for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion. What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two. The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." And he refers contemptuously to the Constitution as " a kite sent up to keep the henyard in order."... | |
 | 1902 - 776 pages
...occasionally warned of the existence of a spirit of resistance among their subjects ? "What signify," he asks, "a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." B 1 Works, X, 42. « Ibid., IV, 362. 8 Ibid., IV, 479. • Ibid., IV (1789), 467. 8 Ibid., IV, 362.... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 pages
...warned of the existence of a spirit of resistance among their subjects ? " What signify," he asks, " a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." 1 The idea of adherence to the principle of the social contract finds a less violent expression in... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1903 - 234 pages
...for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." And finally he referred to the Constitution "as a kite sent up to keep the henyard in order." Afterwards... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1905 - 416 pages
...announcement of independence. It would bring upon America a fierce war, but Jefferson believed that " the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants !" He liked " a little rebellion now and then." Again, though no strong system of government was yet... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. THIS uneasiness has produced acts entirely unjustifiable, but I hope they will provoke no severities... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1907 - 316 pages
...nothing but praise. "God forbid," he said, "that we should be twenty years without a rebellion. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." From this sprightly and vivacious doctrine he excepted himself; when Tarleton and his raiders came... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1910 - 244 pages
...for each State. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The/ tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." ' That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate in America in any section of the country.... | |
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 
