...resistance? 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?...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. By the time Jefferson made this observation, the federal Constitution - with a distinctive accent on...

...before decay inevitably returns. Always ready with an earthy metaphor, Jefferson famously concludes, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." The theater as a medium was uniquely qualified to reproduce such symbolic incidents of bloodshed. Because...

...swindling; it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel." p. 327 Frederic Harrison33 Tree of Liberty The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson 33234 Chicago Martyrs Say, then, that the man erred grievously, if his error had been...

...pledged their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor to defend it." "Hear, hear," Florence added. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants; it is its natural manure." "So spoke Thomas Jefferson," Sunderland pointed out. "But come, let's not be so dramatic with Butch,...

...from time to time that their 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." 23 In his inaugural address, Jefferson praised the militia as one of the "essential principles of our...

...warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" And then, more famously, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." That is almost certainly Mill's argument as well, although he was too sober a writer to put it so bluntly....

...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 of Independence, one...

..."When Shays's Rebellion started, Jefferson said, 'What country ever before existed without a rebellion? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is the natural manure.' He was educated." "One man's patriot is another man's tyrant," she said. Jack...

...was also wearing a T-shirt that had a likeness of Abraham Lincoln. On the back was the expression, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" and on the front side the Latin phrase, "Sic semper tyrannous," which means thus always to tyrants....

...Shays's Rebellion, the 1786 populist uprising in Massachusetts against new taxes, with chilling glibness: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," he wrote. "It is its natural manure."22 And as the French Revolution grew increasingly bloody in the...