 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - Federal government - 2005 - 238 pages
...like a little rebellion now and then." 19 Later in 1787 Jefferson wrote about the same matter, asking, "what signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." 20 It was government, especially distant government, not citizens, that had to... | |
 | Jeffry John Stein - Performing Arts - 2005 - 330 pages
...by heroically engaging the ever more expansive deaths and rebirths of our human journey. TRANSITIONS The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. THOMAS JEFFERSON One might suspect from the discourse so far that I denigrate private interest and... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - History - 2005 - 125 pages
...who admire Jefferson are quick to recall his declaration "I like a little rebellion now and then. . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" (Wallace 15). But Jefferson's zest for rebellion was limited to white people who, in his dream, would... | |
 | Adrian H. Krieg - Political Science - 2004 - 426 pages
...(UK), Ct/RI District Export Council. Web Sites: www.kriegbooks.com & www.a2zPublications.com ACT I The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson Letter to WS Smith, 1787 Speech: Apprehension seems to exist among the people of... | |
 | David Matlin - Social Science - 2005 - 180 pages
...unworthiness. Jefferson's statement , involving the double right to bear arms and of revolution, that: "... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure .. ." 6 now appears as a tree but one of another mystery we cannot and do not know how to even name,... | |
 | Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - Social Science - 2005 - 352 pages
...warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Ask any school child if he was ever taught that the author of the Declaration oflndependence, one of... | |
 | 张秀国 - English language - 2005 - 288 pages
...om 面 e thenneMa enedhere orfdungl barrel-oi nsfield) : to the cl na spray g 抑 ， e 吗 (1)The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. (Thomas Jefferson) (Liberty needs bloodshed as the tree needs manure. Without manure, the tree will... | |
 | Michael Cannon, Michael Cannon, Jr. - Philosophy - 2005 - 286 pages
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - Presidents - 2005 - 696 pages
...defeated there — well, I hesitate to say what we would do then. Jefferson, you recall, said that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. At least, you may rest assured that no Southern jury would convict an employer for refusing to take... | |
 | Michael Cannon, Michael E. Cannon - Religion - 2005 - 285 pages
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
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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. 
