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• 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...
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferso
• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. JEFFERSON
• 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....
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all....
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....
• 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....
• 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...
• 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....