 | Julius Goebel (Jr.) - 1915 - 252 pages
...Madison in 1787, Jefferson remarked: I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - 1916 - 222 pages
...In a letter to James Madison written in 1787, on the subject of rebellion, Jefferson said : "I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as a storm is in the physical * * * An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1920 - 216 pages
...while to give you a little quotation here from the writings of Thomas Jefferson. [Reading:] I hold a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and...necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world. That certainly is a defense of force as a means of changing the government ; and yet that is... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 452 pages
...have some surprises nearer home. It is advocacy of revolution by force and violence to write: "I hold a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and...in the political world as storms in the physical." 8S Out go the works of Thomas Jefferson. It is advocacy of change of government by assassination to... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1921 - 222 pages
...effects of Jefferson's theory of the desirability of a rebellion every twenty years, with the idea that a rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary...in the political world as storms in the physical.! The aristocratic tendencies of the first two Presidents^ are divinely utilized in *The residence of... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 pages
...positively hostile to government. Jefferson, the greatest of the popular leaders, said in 1787: " I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing...necessary in the political world as storms in the physical ... it is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." Men who entertained such extreme... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1925 - 224 pages
...the parent ! Finally, if all these limitations upon authority did not suffice, Jefferson suggested that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" and that the "tree of liberty should occasionally be refreshed with the blood of tyrants. ' ' Jefferson... | |
 | Leon Whipple - 1927 - 172 pages
...power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as a storm in the physical. . . An observation of this truth would render honest republican governors... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1932 - 208 pages
...quote these men in support of this question. For example, here quote : Thomas Jefferson : " I hold a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and...in the political world as storms in the physical. * * What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - 366 pages
...he put it, that our governors should not forget who are the real masters of America ; he also said : "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is...in the political world as storms in the physical." Actually we should limit the term of the President to one period in order to save the President from... | |
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. 
