...source as his own, that justice is sometimes purchased at the price of bloodshed. As Jefferson put it: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." But our poet was no believer in war itself as a blessing. Soyez maudits devant cea cent mille cadavrea...

...rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." In a letter to William Carmichael, dated December llth, 1787, he says — "Our new constitution is...

...rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." In a letter to William Carmichael, dated December llth, 1787, he says — "Our new constitution is...

...time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . What signifies a few lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. It is a mistake that the fighting or brave men make eternal enemies. Never was there a greater mistake...

...arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts; pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives but in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 1 Lincoln voiced the same faith in Congress in 1848 : Any people anywhere, being inclined and having...

...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...

..."that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." He believed that it was necessary that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ' ' While revolution kept alive the free spirit of the people, nevertheless Jt acted "through illegal-...

...was himself no hero, he was, in characteristic civilian fashion, eager enough that others should die. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," he told William Stephens Smith in 1787. In a letter to William Short six years later, he did not blink...

...Warner (Ret.) US Army, West Point Graduate In 1787, Thomas Jefferson would write a friend and say, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." This is no less true today in 2004 than it was in 1787. In fact, it might be more relevant today than...

...The Latin phrase, 'Sic semper tyrannis' (Thus ever to tyrantsl, and a quote from Thomas lefferson, 'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants'" (Los Angeles Times, June 1n, 2001, p. A24l. In the "holy war" between Christian and Muslim youth in...