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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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Liberalism: The Genius of American Ideals

Marcus G. Raskin - 2004 - 348 pages
...to foster liberty. In his letter to Colonel William Smith, Jefferson claimed that no country could "preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned...that this people preserve the spirit of resistance. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
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Political Theory

RC Agarwal - 2004 - 580 pages
...people, people rise in revolt against the government. Jefferson's comment is worth-noting in this regard: "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance". EQUALITY Meaning of Equality By equality, we generally...
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Canadians and Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions

Katherine L. Morrison - 352 pages
...son-in-law, he continued the argument: "God forbid we should be 20 years without such a rebellion ... 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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Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist ...

Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 352 pages
...another correspondent: "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!... What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms. ... The tree of liberty must be...
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Citizen Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 pages
...what country can preserve its 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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Political Theory

VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 pages
...it is past finding out". ; Thomas Jefferson writes, "What country can preserve its liberties if the rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance". Judge Learned Hand says, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution,...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting

Frank Miniter - 2007 - 269 pages
...draft of proposed constitution for Virginia, available at http://www.constitution.org/jw/acm_5-m.txt. "And what country can preserve its liberties, if 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." Letter...
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Revolutionary Faith

Treber Doall - 2007 - 178 pages
...the forerunner of death to the public liberty... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this...them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty...
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Anarchy And the Law: The Political Economy of Choice

Edward Stringham - 2007 - 718 pages
...another correspondent: "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!... What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms. ... The tree of liberty must be...
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Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

Robert C. Byrd, Steve Kettmann - 2008 - 216 pages
...quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. . . . And what country can preserve its liberties, if its...them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty...
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