 | 1861 - 1148 頁
...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 - 1844 - 422 頁
...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? The...patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."* This sentiment has been lately attributed to another quarter. Immediately on the Convention having... | |
 | 1850 - 744 頁
...resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is, to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 620 頁
...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 ? The...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... | |
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 424 頁
...resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is, to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found... | |
 | James Spence - 1861 - 398 頁
...quiet under such misconception, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ! The...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." The early spirit of temperate republicanism, (that of the Fathers of the country) which guided its... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 頁
...rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 頁
...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings;" and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy.... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 頁
...lions, tigers, and mammoths, called kings ; " and held it desirable that " the tree of liberty should be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nor would his religious scruples have been shocked by the boldest flights of the sceptical philosophy.... | |
 | 1910 - 1076 頁
...for each State. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion ? What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." * That phase of Jeffersonianism would to-day find no advocate in America in any section of the country.... | |
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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. 
