Quote #392
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that this 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 William S. Smith, 1787, in Jefferson, On Democracy 20, S.
Padover, ed., 1939 ]
((mainly included for the detailed source))
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that this 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 William S. Smith, 1787, in Jefferson, On Democracy 20, S.
Padover, ed., 1939 ]
((mainly included for the detailed source))
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