 | Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 Seiten
...honorably conducted ? . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." It shakes one's faith in mankind to find a really great statesman uttering such folly ! It had not... | |
 | 1890 - 726 Seiten
...rebellion now and then is a good thing. God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without one. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." It is impossible to think that Jefferson meant this exactly seriously ; but it shows the trend of his thought.... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 192 Seiten
...resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." CHAPTER XX. SOME EVIDENCE OF HIS INSINCERITY. A CLOSE observer of men has remarked, " Beware of him,... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 190 Seiten
...if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with tlie blood of patriots and tyrants. It... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1892 - 808 Seiten
...questioned till party cunning 1 " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without each a [Shays] rebellion What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." — Jtfferson't Works, vol. ii., p. 267. 1814.] THE REMEDY OF DISUNION. 227 managed to confuse a proposition... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 744 Seiten
...warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrectioti of Massachusetts, and on the spur of... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 748 Seiten
...the spirit of resistance? Let then arms. . . . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? TL of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of p, and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our Convention has bei much impressed by the insurrection... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 Seiten
...forbid," he cried, " that we should be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signified a few lives lost in a century or two. The tree of...to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants : it was its natural manure." He affected to believe that the Indians who had no government at all were... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 Seiten
...should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion * • « What signifies a few lives lost in а century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Franklin wrote to Dr. Shipley before Shay's Bebellion; Jefferson writes after it. The different view... | |
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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. 
