The people cannot be all
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its 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 its natural manure.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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- Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson
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- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson
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- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. – Thomas Jefferson
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. – Thomas Jefferson
- Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. – Thomas Jefferson
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- Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. – G. K. Chesterton