 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 Seiten
...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...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.' Such is a specimen of the philosophy which Mr Jefferson poured into the breasts of the public characters... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1837 - 882 Seiten
...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...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts ; and on the spur of... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 Seiten
...God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." — "What signify a few lives in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." But, it may be asked, what would have been the condition of the United States, if at the time of the... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 Seiten
...be twenty years without such a rebellion!"— "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two1! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." The reader, will find an account of this rebellion in Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol. V. p. 114. Gen.... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 Seiten
...signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? [Should he not have said, " lost every twenty years ?"] The tree of Liberty must be refreshed, from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." These pious wishes for rebellion have not been fulfilled. The benign operation of that Constitution... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - 1844 - 422 Seiten
...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?...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."* This sentiment has been lately attributed to another quarter. Immediately on the Convention having... | |
 | George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - 1846 - 606 Seiten
...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...from time to time, with the blood of patriots and of tyrants. It is its natural manure." Without commenting on the accuracy of his arithmetic, or the... | |
 | 1850 - 744 Seiten
...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 the blood of patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 620 Seiten
...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...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts ; and on the spur of... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 Seiten
...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?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our Con vention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts ; and on the spur... | |
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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. 
