 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 516 pages
...resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 534 pages
...resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 520 pages
...resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection... | |
 | 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
...its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? .... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...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,... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - Social problems - 1898 - 442 pages
...culture. " 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?...liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." 1 Somewhat extravagant in expression, but... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...resistance? Let these 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?...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... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 458 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...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." And he refers contemptuously to the Constitution as " a kite sent up to keep the henyard in order."... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1902 - 776 pages
...occasionally warned of the existence of a spirit of resistance among their subjects ? "What signify," he asks, "a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." B 1 Works, X, 42. « Ibid., IV, 362. 8 Ibid., IV, 479. • Ibid., IV (1789), 467. 8 Ibid., IV, 362.... | |
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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. 
