 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 Seiten
...hands of the American people." — George Washington, in his First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve... | |
 | Michael Schade - 2005 - 640 Seiten
...forcing her to loosen her grip on Naiusa. She exhaled dramatically, slumping over. "It was once said The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' My glorious lady, you are truly a patriot, but today is not your day," The Sunset Thane proclaimed... | |
 | Sarah Vowell - 2005 - 273 Seiten
...perhaps as a nod commemorating Patriot's Day, was the famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the front of McVeigh's shirt was a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Printed under Lincoln's face was... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - 2009 - 333 Seiten
...may require the same of the contemporary generation. Jefferson's metaphor of a "tree of liberty . . . refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" remains an important part of our rhetorical tradition. 33 Kennedy's Inaugural Address, for example,... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 Seiten
...Constitution resulted from an overreaction to such minor events as Shays's Rebellion — writing, notoriously, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Jefferson warned against excessive power in the federal government, advancing the principle that the... | |
 | Hakeem Shittu, Callie Query - 2006 - 150 Seiten
...Burr was served with divorce papers while on his deathbed by the oldest son of Alexander Hamilton. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. — Thomas Jefferson, in response to the Shays Rebellion of 1 786. The Rebellion occurred when a group... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 Seiten
...If they remain quiet such . . . lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson continued his remarkable writings even from his deathbed. His love of liberty and... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 Seiten
...then," he said. "It is like a storm in the Atmosphere." It was too bad that some people were killed, but "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Similar rhetorical exaggeration accompanied his response to the bloody excesses of the French Revolution.... | |
 | Elizabeth J. Perry - 2006 - 380 Seiten
...from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."23 In his inaugural address, Jefferson praised the militia as one of the "essential principles... | |
 | Tank Todd - 2006 - 167 Seiten
..."Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment." Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1787 * "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manner." BH Liddell Hart * "In war the chief incalculable is the human will." Lewis Carroll, Alice... | |
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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 
