 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...instance of Massachusetts'? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the unportance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1830 - 526 pages
...instance of Massachusetts ? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to die importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...such a rebellion. The people cannot be all and always well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...instance of Massachusetts ? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid, we should ever he twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. . The... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 458 pages
...instance of Massachusetts ? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so_ honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be twenty y ear t without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 466 pages
...quoted in the former part of this work, when speaking of the insurrection in Massachusetts, he said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...instance of Massachusetts 1 And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted 1 I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in...importance of the facts they misconceive. If they re-» main quiet under such misconceptions, it is a tethargy, the forerunner of death to the public... | |
 | Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...insurgents, which I remember. On the contrary, he says to Col. Smith, in a letter dated November 13, 1787— "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!"— "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two1! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...representative government to the colonies ; and, although the former intimate union among them was not * God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion (ie a rebellion for the purpose of cancelling debts). Jefferson's Letter to Colonel Smith, November,... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...Constitution had reached him, uses the following language in reference to the insurrection of Shays : " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." " "We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes... | |
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God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet... 
