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. New Outlook - Page 4251910Full view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts: and on the spur of... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts : and on the spur of... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 514 pages
...Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...patriots and tyrants. ( It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts : and on the spur of... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 516 pages
...Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts : and on the spur of... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century cr two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts ; and on the spur of... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Such is a specimen of the current of sound philosophy, which Mr. Jefferson poured into the breasts... | |
| Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 466 pages
...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 ? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" After reading these sentiments and expressions, no person can be surprised to find that Mr. Jefferson... | |
| Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 458 pages
...them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It it its natural manure. " In a letter to William Carmichael, dated December llth, 1787, he says —... | |
| Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 480 pages
...arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few livet lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must...time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is Us natural manure. " In a letter to William Carmichael, dated December llth, 1787, he says — " Our... | |
| Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 510 pages
...inquires, " What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ?" and the additional remark, that " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." This language would better become a Turkish Sultan, or the chief of a Tartar horde, than a distinguished... | |
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