 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 pages
...be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . 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." It shakes one's faith in mankind to find a really great statesman uttering such folly ! It had not... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 726 pages
...that we should ever be twenty years without one. 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." It is impossible to think that Jefferson meant this exactly seriously ; but it shows the trend of his thought.... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - Presidents - 1885 - 192 pages
...resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." CHAPTER XX. SOME EVIDENCE OF HIS INSINCERITY. A CLOSE observer of men has remarked, " Beware of him,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1892 - 808 pages
...be twenty years without each a [Shays] rebellion 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." — Jtfferson't Works, vol. ii., p. 267. 1814.] THE REMEDY OF DISUNION. 227 managed to confuse a proposition... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 744 pages
...spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrectioti of Massachusetts, and on the spur of... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Universities and colleges - 1893 - 540 pages
...twenty years without such a rebellion * • « What signifies a few lives lost in а century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Franklin wrote to Dr. Shipley before Shay's Bebellion; Jefferson writes after it. The different view... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1911 - 666 pages
...sacrifice to procure. But it does not follow that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" or that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the contrary, there can be no liberty worthy of the name without security of life and property.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1897 - 520 pages
...people preserve the spirit of resistance? .... 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 again : " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 548 pages
...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 ; " and he refers to the Constitution as " a kite set up to keep the hen-yard in order." 2 Such language... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 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. (To Stephens Smith, written in Paris, 1787. F. IV., 467.) RECIPROCITY IN TRADE. — I should say then... | |
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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. 
