...rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people...

...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings;" and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy....

...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings ; " and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy....

...existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate in America in any section of the country....

...forward to a tiiun when blood should oeasu to flow); and tie man who said, ' The tree of Liberty most be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants — it it iti natural manure;' the vaunting iuridel— the hypocritical wretch, whose crimes bore fruit after...

...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed to...

...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." : Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed to...

...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."1 Jefferson not only most earnestly opposed Washington's principles of government, but he claimed...

...them right as to facts ; pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. And with this authority of Thomas Jefferson on " a little blood -letting" as his text, Mr. Chandler...

...its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. . . . The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to...patriots and tyrants : it is its natural manure." (Dwight's Character of Jefferson, 134, 82-112.) But, as president, he saw the impossibility of putting...