What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And
what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of 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 tree of liberty must be refreshed from time
to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural
manure." ~ Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
The Tree of Liberty
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
interesting misquote
"a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.".
This quotation, usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson, is actually by President Gerald R. Ford.
"Let me reaffirm to you today my deep personal conviction that the best way to begin in our efforts is to improve the government we have, not to enlarge it. I do not believe a bigger government is necessarily a better government. May I add this: Please never forget, a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have." ~ President Gerald R. Ford's Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, April 28, 1975
This quotation is sometimes followed by a variation of an actual Jefferson quotation, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.", Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27, 1788.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
The Jefferson Encyclopedia
This quotation, usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson, is actually by President Gerald R. Ford.
"Let me reaffirm to you today my deep personal conviction that the best way to begin in our efforts is to improve the government we have, not to enlarge it. I do not believe a bigger government is necessarily a better government. May I add this: Please never forget, a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have." ~ President Gerald R. Ford's Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, April 28, 1975
This quotation is sometimes followed by a variation of an actual Jefferson quotation, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.", Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27, 1788.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
The Jefferson Encyclopedia
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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