 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 510 pages
...from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms."—"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" After reading these sentiments and expressions, no person can be surprised to find that Mr. Jefferson... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 458 pages
...resistance 9 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...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 - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 480 pages
...from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms." — " What signify a few lives lost in a century or two...tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time urith the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." After reading these sentiments... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
