 | 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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 480 pages
...the insurrection in Massachusetts, he said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." " And what country can preserve its...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 - 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 - 510 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?...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...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... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Southern States - 1844 - 422 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."* This sentiment has been lately attributed to another quarter. Immediately on the Convention having... | |
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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. 
