 | 1917 - 198 Seiten
...was often used against him by his enemies but he always defended himself5by quoting Thos. Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr.... | |
 | Wilmer Carlyle Harris - 1917 - 198 Seiten
...was often used against him by his enemies but he always defended himself5 by quoting Thos. Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr.... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 368 Seiten
...mattered little. "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 346 Seiten
...years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to tune with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took... | |
 | Katherine L. Morrison - 352 Seiten
...warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."" Jefferson's faith remained intact after the Terror of the French Revolution. The "deaths seemed to... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Adrian H. Krieg - 2004 - 426 Seiten
...(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... | |
 | Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 352 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David Matlin - 2005 - 180 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - 2005 - 125 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
