 | Michael Cannon, Michael E. Cannon - 2005 - 285 pages
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 pages
...hands of the American people." — George Washington, in his First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve... | |
 | Michael Cannon, Michael Cannon, Jr. - 2005 - 286 pages
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
 | Sarah Vowell - 2005 - 273 pages
...perhaps as a nod commemorating Patriot's Day, was the famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the front of McVeigh's shirt was a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Printed under Lincoln's face was... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - 2009 - 333 pages
...may require the same of the contemporary generation. Jefferson's metaphor of a "tree of liberty . . . refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" remains an important part of our rhetorical tradition. 33 Kennedy's Inaugural Address, for example,... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 pages
...Constitution resulted from an overreaction to such minor events as Shays's Rebellion — writing, notoriously, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Jefferson warned against excessive power in the federal government, advancing the principle that the... | |
 | Hakeem Shittu, Callie Query - 2006 - 150 pages
...Burr was served with divorce papers while on his deathbed by the oldest son of Alexander Hamilton. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. — Thomas Jefferson, in response to the Shays Rebellion of 1 786. The Rebellion occurred when a group... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 pages
...If they remain quiet such . . . lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson continued his remarkable writings even from his deathbed. His love of liberty and... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 pages
...then," he said. "It is like a storm in the Atmosphere." It was too bad that some people were killed, but "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Similar rhetorical exaggeration accompanied his response to the bloody excesses of the French Revolution.... | |
 | Elizabeth J. Perry - 2006 - 380 pages
...from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."23 In his inaugural address, Jefferson praised the militia as one of the "essential principles... | |
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 
