[W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787
warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787
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"And what country can preserve its liberties,
if its rulers are not warned from time to time that... - What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not
warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit
of resistance?
Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)... - The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants.
It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter... - The tree of research must from time to time
be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
Alan... - Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body,
with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs... - I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared... - Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -
the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will... - I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve... - Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins...
