 | Francis X. Winters - History - 1999 - 314 pages
...Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts reached him while he was in Paris ... he greeted it with enthusiasm: "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . ." For "the tree of liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with the blood of patriots and... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always alive.51 And on Shays's Rebellion: God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. ... If [the people] remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - Philosophy - 2003 - 644 pages
...although he conceded that its motives were 'founded in ignorance', but greeted it with enthusiasm: 'God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.' The very fact that the people had taken it upon themselves to rise and act was enough for him, regardless... | |
 | Reynolds J. D. Jack, Jack Reynolds - Firearms - 2003 - 389 pages
...historical commentary. Let us start off with a quote from the ultimate Anti-Federalist, Thomas Jefferson: God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . . . And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time,... | |
 | Ed Schultz - Comics & Graphic Novels - 2009 - 260 pages
...start putting the screws to the system again? After the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." And he went on to warn about being uninformed. "If [the people] remain quiet under such misconceptions,... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 pages
..."The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - Reference - 2007 - 416 pages
...felicitous "Few die and none resign." Jefferson's comment about Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion," is often generalized into some form of observation that we should have a revolution every couple of... | |
 | John Milton Mackie, Frank E. Grizzard - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 170 pages
...sympathy had he with the spirit of him, who, respecting Shay's rebellion in Massachusctts, had said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." Accordingly, the seat of the present sedition being supposed to contain about sixteen thousand men... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - Bible - 2006 - 219 pages
...prey upon each other, he suggested that every generation ought to have its house-cleaning rebellion: God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . If they remain quiet such . . . lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... | |
 | Robert C. Byrd, Steve Kettmann - History - 2008 - 216 pages
...but also on actual rebellions from time to time, if for no other reason than to keep leaders honest. "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion," Jefferson wrote in a letter to William S. Smith in November 1787, before he had served as our nation's... | |
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The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. 
