 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings ; " and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy.... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings;" and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy.... | |
 | 1910 - 1076 pages
...existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate in America in any section of the country.... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pages
...forward to a tiiun when blood should oeasu to flow); and tie man who said, ' The tree of Liberty most be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants — it it iti natural manure;' the vaunting iuridel— the hypocritical wretch, whose crimes bore fruit after... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 706 pages
...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 time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." : Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed to... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 704 pages
...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 time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed to... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 674 pages
...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 time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."1 Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed... | |
 | Legislators - 1880 - 446 pages
...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 time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. And with this authority of Thomas Jefferson on " a little blood -letting" as his text, Mr. Chandler... | |
 | Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 pages
...its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. . . . The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to...patriots and tyrants : it is its natural manure." (Dwight's Character of Jefferson, 134, 82-112.) But, as president, he saw the impossibility of putting... | |
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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. 
