 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - Страниц: 394
...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... | |
 | 1890 - Страниц: 726
...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 - 1885 - Страниц: 192
...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,... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - Страниц: 190
...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 time with tlie blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." CHAPTER XX. SOME EVIDENCE OF HIS INSINCERITY.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1892 - Страниц: 808
...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 - 1889 - Страниц: 744
...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... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - Страниц: 748
...the spirit of resistance? Let then arms. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? TL of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of p, and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our Convention has bei much impressed by the insurrection... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - Страниц: 540
...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... | |
 | 1911 - Страниц: 666
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - Страниц: 516
...set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. 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 & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection... | |
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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. 
