 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? 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 cr two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...to time, that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What...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 - 458 pages
...time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance 9 Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What...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 - 1833 - 510 pages
...to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them- What...tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time wiih the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. " In a letter to William Carmichael,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 480 pages
...to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take 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 be refreshed from time to time with the blood... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...time, that the people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What...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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What...patriots and tyrants ; it is its natural manure." It was not to be expected that the man who could talk in this flippant and cold-hearted manner about... | |
 | Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...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 to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." The reader, will find an account of this rebellion in Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol. V. p. 114.... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take anns. 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 ? [Should he not have said, " lost every twenty years ?"] The tree of Liberty must be refreshed, from... | |
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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. 
