 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 514 pages
...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 or two...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
...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 or two...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 - 990 pages
...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 or two?...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
...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 or two?...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1833 - 548 pages
...resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is tojset them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...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... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...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 or two...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1837 - 882 pages
...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 or two...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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." — "What signify a few lives in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." But, it may be asked, what would have been the condition of the United States, if at the time of the... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
