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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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Canadians and Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions

Katherine L. Morrison - 352 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?...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."" Jefferson's faith remained intact after the Terror of the French Revolution. The "deaths seemed to...
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Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800

Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 pages
...like a little rebellion now and then." 19 Later in 1787 Jefferson wrote about the same matter, asking, "what signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." 20 It was government, especially distant government, not citizens, that had to...
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Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist ...

Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 352 pages
...warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Ask any school child if he was ever taught that the author of the Declaration oflndependence, one of...
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Prisons: Inside the New America : from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib

David Matlin - 2005 - 180 pages
...unworthiness. Jefferson's statement , involving the double right to bear arms and of revolution, that: "... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure .. ." 6 now appears as a tree but one of another mystery we cannot and do not know how to even name,...
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Reassessing American Culture: A Rebel's Guide

Gregory Shafer - 2005 - 125 pages
...who admire Jefferson are quick to recall his declaration "I like a little rebellion now and then. . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" (Wallace 15). But Jefferson's zest for rebellion was limited to white people who, in his dream, would...
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Vale: The Illuminati and Their Plans for World Conquest

Adrian H. Krieg - 2004 - 426 pages
...(UK), Ct/RI District Export Council. Web Sites: www.kriegbooks.com & www.a2zPublications.com ACT I The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson Letter to WS Smith, 1787 Speech: Apprehension seems to exist among the people of...
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Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling: The Spiritual Significance of ...

Jeffry John Stein - 2005 - 330 pages
...by heroically engaging the ever more expansive deaths and rebirths of our human journey. TRANSITIONS The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. THOMAS JEFFERSON One might suspect from the discourse so far that I denigrate private interest and...
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English Rhetoric

张秀国 - 2005 - 288 pages
...om 面 e thenneMa enedhere orfdungl barrel-oi nsfield) : to the cl na spray g 抑 , e 吗 (1)The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. (Thomas Jefferson) (Liberty needs bloodshed as the tree needs manure. Without manure, the tree will...
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The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon ...

William Edward Leuchtenburg - 2005 - 696 pages
...defeated there — well, I hesitate to say what we would do then. Jefferson, you recall, said that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. At least, you may rest assured that no Southern jury would convict an employer for refusing to take...
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Summon the Heroes

Michael Schade - 2005 - 640 pages
...forcing her to loosen her grip on Naiusa. She exhaled dramatically, slumping over. "It was once said The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' My glorious lady, you are truly a patriot, but today is not your day," The Sunset Thane proclaimed...
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