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" What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 463
by Thomas Jefferson - 1894
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Master Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century...refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. THIS uneasiness has produced acts entirely unjustifiable, but...
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The Seven Ages of Washington: A Biography

Owen Wister - 1907 - 316 pages
...nothing but praise. "God forbid," he said, "that we should be twenty years without a rebellion. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." From this sprightly and vivacious doctrine he excepted himself;...
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The Outlook, Volume 95

1910 - 1090 pages
...for each State. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." 1 That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate...
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The Spirit of Democracy

Lyman Abbott - 1910 - 244 pages
...for each State. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The/ tree of...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." ' That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate...
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Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

Whitelaw Reid - 1910 - 306 pages
...for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." And finally he referred to the Constitution "as a kite sent up to keep the henyard in...
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The History of Political Theory and Party Organization in the United States

Simeon Davidson Fess - 1910 - 466 pages
...criticizing it, he exclaimed, "God forbid that we should be twenty years without a rebellion. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Such utterances cannot be accounted for on any other basis than that of fears for the...
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One Welshman: a Glance at a Great Career: Inaugural Address ..., Volume 2

Whitelaw Reid - 1912 - 56 pages
...for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."" And finally he referred to the Constitution "as a kite sent up to keep the henyarcl...
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Publication of the American Sociological Society, Volumes 7-9

American Sociological Association - 1913 - 652 pages
...spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts; pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. JQ DEALEY, BROWN UNIVERSITY I have been requested to comment briefly, from a sociological...
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American and English Studies

Whitelaw Reid - 1913 - 362 pages
...for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ?The tree of...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants/' 1 And finally he referred to the Constitution "as a kite sent up to keep the hen-yard...
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Publication of the American Sociological Society, Volumes 7-9

American Sociological Association - 1913 - 650 pages
...spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts; pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century...or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from tune to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. JQ DEAIEY, BROWN- UNIVERSITY I have been requested...
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