...what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." These letters, it must be remembered, were written before the passage of the Alien and Sedition Law....

...we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. . . . What signify a few lives lost? . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."1 In a similar strain he alined himself with the philosophical anarchists. "The basis of our...

...countries can preserve their liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them...time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. But today the American people share neither the fear of their forefathers regarding change nor Jefferson's...

...rebellion every twenty years to warn rulers that the people have preserved the spirit of resistance. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed, from time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * "Were there but an Adam & an Eve left in every country, & left free, it would be better than as it...

...Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr. Chandler's speech of March 2 was a powerful one.6 He began it with a vigorous defense of the 4....

...Jefferson: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Mr. Chandler's speech of March 2 was a powerful one.6 He began it with a vigorous defense of the 4....

...mattered little. "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took...

...years without such a rebellion!" he cried. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to tune with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." We should not take these "wild and whirling words" more seriously perhaps than Jefferson himself took...

...had departed, ostensibly to take a position in Chicago. A note was left for Walter. This read: — "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." — Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence."...

...inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. — Disraeli. £•» «•» The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson. HEN Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town which adjoineth the forest, he found...