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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. "
The New Englander - Page 731
1861
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 2

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 516 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...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...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...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...
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 2

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 514 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...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...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...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...
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The North American Review, Volume 30

1830 - 592 pages
...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 to...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...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...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...
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History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the ...

Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 464 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...the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure,'1'1 This language would better become a Turkish Sultan, or the chief of a Tartar horde, than...
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History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the ...

Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 480 pages
...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 be refreshed from time to...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...
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History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the ...

Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 458 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. 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. It it its natural manure. " In a letter to William Carmichael, dated December llth, 1787, he says —...
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Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of ...

B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.' Such is a specimen of the philosophy which Mr Jefferson poured into the breasts of the public characters...
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