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• The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of a wolf.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and third president, Letter to William Stevens Smith [Nov....
• 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 to William S....
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• 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....
• 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), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• 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....
• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.
  Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half....
• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Madison, 1787...
• Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched.
  Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion....