 | Jim Hightower - 2004 - 308 pages
...it was Shays' uprising and others like it at the time that prompted Jefferson to write to a friend: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. . . . God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." Elizabeth Cady Stanton,... | |
 | Robert Gover - 2005 - 398 pages
...the French Revolution..." Thomas Jefferson captured the mood of this time when, in 1787, he wrote, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,...in the political world as storms in the physical." And the American rebellion was not ended by Cornwallis' surrender. "Even more than their civilian neighbors,... | |
 | Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - 2009 - 138 pages
...understood the need for both revolution and an authentic constitution. Of revolution, Jefferson said, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is...in the political world as storms in the physical. ... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." Having known armed struggle, this... | |
 | Grace Roegner Freedman, Princeton Review - 2005 - 312 pages
...organized a boycott of British goods (E) sold provisions and weapons to local Native Americans 54. "I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then,...in the political world as storms in the physical." The statement above was made by Thomas Jefferson in response to (A) Bacon's Rebellion (B) the War of... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 2005 - 222 pages
...believed in periodic rebellions as a force for political renewal. As he wrote to James Madison in 1787, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,...necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."9 It is not as well known that he did not think we have a right to impose our ideas and regulations,... | |
 | Kerry Emanuel - 2005 - 296 pages
...joyn'd. -Richard Steere (1643-1721), "On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast" France Gives Up La Floride, 1565 / hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is...in the political world as storms in the physical. — Thomas Jefferson ere it not for a hurricane, France, rather than Spain, might have successfully... | |
 | Jinx Schwartz, Elizabeth Maul Schwartz - 2005 - 298 pages
...love, unflagging patience, and moral support. Without him, there would be no book. Thanks, y 'all. 'A little rebellion now and then is a good thing,...in the political world as storms in the physical." — Thomas Jefferson Wretches! Soon they will become aware of their folly." — Antonio Lopez de Santa... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 pages
...117-38 (2002). It was in this connection, for instance, that Jefferson made his famous remark about how "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing,...in the political world as storms in the physical." Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787), in n Papers of Jefferson, supra note... | |
 | John C. Trueswell, Michael K. Tanenhaus - 2005 - 412 pages
...for written interpretation of the texts. For example, people read the following sentence: (1) I hold that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing,...and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. as an instigation of a revolution, which is appropriate to the leader of the 1917... | |
 | Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 352 pages
...its evils, too, the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. ... But even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy...of government, and nourishes a general attention to public affairs. 1 hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing." Or to another correspondent:... | |
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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. 
