 | Jeffry John Stein - 2005 - 330 Seiten
...by heroically engaging the ever more expansive deaths and rebirths of our human journey. TRANSITIONS The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. THOMAS JEFFERSON One might suspect from the discourse so far that I denigrate private interest and... | |
 | 张秀国 - 2005 - 288 Seiten
...om 面 e thenneMa enedhere orfdungl barrel-oi nsfield) : to the cl na spray g 抑 ， e 吗 (1)The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. (Thomas Jefferson) (Liberty needs bloodshed as the tree needs manure. Without manure, the tree will... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 Seiten
...hands of the American people." — George Washington, in his First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. . . . God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve... | |
 | Sarah Vowell - 2005 - 273 Seiten
...perhaps as a nod commemorating Patriot's Day, was the famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the front of McVeigh's shirt was a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Printed under Lincoln's face was... | |
 | Michael Cannon, Michael E. Cannon - 2005 - 285 Seiten
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
 | William Edward Leuchtenburg - 2005 - 696 Seiten
...defeated there — well, I hesitate to say what we would do then. Jefferson, you recall, said that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. At least, you may rest assured that no Southern jury would convict an employer for refusing to take... | |
 | Michael Cannon, Michael Cannon, Jr. - 2005 - 286 Seiten
...liberty since her inception. Thomas Jefferson knew what this commitment to liberty would cost. He said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" There are times and seasons when men are called upon to defend the liberty that preserves our freedom... | |
 | Michael Schade - 2005 - 640 Seiten
...forcing her to loosen her grip on Naiusa. She exhaled dramatically, slumping over. "It was once said The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' My glorious lady, you are truly a patriot, but today is not your day," The Sunset Thane proclaimed... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - 2009 - 333 Seiten
...may require the same of the contemporary generation. Jefferson's metaphor of a "tree of liberty . . . refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" remains an important part of our rhetorical tradition. 33 Kennedy's Inaugural Address, for example,... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 Seiten
...Constitution resulted from an overreaction to such minor events as Shays's Rebellion — writing, notoriously, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?...of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Jefferson warned against excessive power in the federal government, advancing the principle that the... | |
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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. 
