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" And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 268
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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The Militia Movement in the United States: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information - 1997 - 170 pages
...bane of liberty." — Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Annals of Congress at 750 (Aug 17, 1789) "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its...preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms * * *" — Thomas Jefferson "* * * the people have a right to keep and bear arms." — Patrick Henry...
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Twenty-first Century Democracy

Philip Resnick - 1997 - 182 pages
...wrote: "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion ... What country before, ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?...its rulers are not warned from time to time, that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms" (Koch and Peden, 1944: 436). This...
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"Asylum for Mankind": America, 1607-1800

Marilyn C. Baseler - 1998 - 380 pages
...country can preserve it's [sic] liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy "Quotes from "Extract of a Letter to a Friend. Sept. 23. 1784." Leeds Mercury. Nov. 23. 1784: "To the...
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Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them...The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed...
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The Price of Liberty: Benjamin Franklin Wept

Tedd Adamovich - 2000 - 237 pages
...keeping. Then put everything back into the hands of the bureaucrats and went back about their business. 'And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time. . .' "Our boys in Washington aren't openly murdering citizens yet. But do we want to wait till it gets...
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Treason in the Ashes

William W. Johnstone - 2000 - 356 pages
...smiled. "You are familiar with that one, aren't you?" Blanton said nothing. "Or how about this one: 'What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from "What is the point of all this, General?" "Very simple, Homer. Very basic. The Rebels are armed. We're...
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The Democratic Experience and Political Violence

David C. Rapoport, Leonard Weinberg - 2001 - 388 pages
...created. Overall. the analysis tends to confirm the eounterfactual hypothesis. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?...preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms ... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time...
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Confronting War: An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem, 4th ed.

Ronald J. Glossop - 2012 - 336 pages
...liberty would need to be repeated with some regularity. He wrote in a letter to Colonel Smith in 1787: What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers...preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from...
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Jefferson's America, 1760-1815

Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 460 pages
...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?...preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from rime to rime that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . What signify...
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A People Armed and Free: The Truth about the Second Amendment

Reynolds J. D. Jack, Jack Reynolds - 2003 - 389 pages
...ultimate Anti-Federalist, Thomas Jefferson: God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . . . And what country can preserve its...spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.147 How...
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