...signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? [Should he not have said, " lost every twenty years ?"] The tree of Liberty must be refreshed, from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." These pious wishes for rebellion have not been fulfilled. The benign operation of that Constitution...

...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."* This sentiment has been lately attributed to another quarter. Immediately on the Convention having...

...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 the blood of patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found...

...and what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that its people preserve the spirit of resistance ! Let them...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure !" In another letter dated the llth of December, 1787, he says, " Our new Constitution is powerfully...

...rebellion ? And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to tine that this people preserve the spirit of resistance...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Our Con vention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts ; and on the spur of the...

...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 the blood of patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found...

...remain quiet under such misconception, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." The early spirit of temperate republicanism, (that of the Fathers of the country) which guided its...

...remain quiet under such misconception, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natura 1m n ure." The early spirit of temperate republicanism, (that of the Fathers of the country)...

...rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people...

...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings ; " and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy....