| Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 514 pages
...remedy is to set 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...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 - United States - 1829 - 516 pages
...remedy is to set 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...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
...remedy is to set 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...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
...remedy is to set 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...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 - 982 pages
...remedy is to set 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...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
...remedy is tojset 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,...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 - 480 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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 - 458 pages
...remedy is to set 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...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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