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	*Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1770.htm Revolution and Reformation].		*Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1770.htm Revolution and Reformation].

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ABerkes: see also ref

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-	"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion.<ref>This sentence has possibly been misquoted as "every generation needs a new revolution."</ref> The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in th espur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - [[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Stephens Smith, [[Paris]], 13 Nov. 1787<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356-7. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>	+	"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion.<ref>This sentence has possibly been misquoted as "every generation needs a new revolution."</ref> The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - [[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Stephens Smith, [[Paris]], 13 Nov. 1787<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356-7. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>

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ABerkes at 22:28, 14 November 2008

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-	"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in th espur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - [[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Stephens Smith, [[Paris]], 13 Nov. 1787<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356-7. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>	+	"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion.<ref>This sentence has possibly been misquoted as "every generation needs a new revolution."</ref> The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in th espur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - [[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Stephens Smith, [[Paris]], 13 Nov. 1787<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356-7. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>

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ABerkes: fuller context of quotation

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-	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>	+	"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. 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. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in th espur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - [[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Stephens Smith, [[Paris]], 13 Nov. 1787<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356-7. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>

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ABerkes: fixed links, added TJ on politics & govt link

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-	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513. A transcription of this letter from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86685&layout=html&Itemid=27.</ref>	+	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513 Letterpress copy] at the Library of Congress. A [http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802/86685 transcription of this letter] from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available online as well.</ref>

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-		+	*Monticello Podcast: [http://www.monticello.org/podcasts/index.html#constitution Jefferson's Words: Three Letters on the new U.S. Constitution] includes audio of the letter that contains this quote, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg.
-	Monticello Podcast: [http://www.monticello.org/podcasts/index.html#constitution Jefferson's Words: Three Letters on the new U.S. Constitution] includes audio of the letter that contains this quote, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg.	+	*Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1770.htm Revolution and Reformation].

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Bcraig at 19:03, 8 October 2008

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-	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513. A transcription of this letter from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86685&layout=html&Itemid=27.</ref>	+	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513. A transcription of this letter from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86685&layout=html&Itemid=27.</ref>

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Chad at 18:19, 25 April 2008

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		+	Monticello Podcast: [http://www.monticello.org/podcasts/index.html#constitution Jefferson's Words: Three Letters on the new U.S. Constitution] includes audio of the letter that contains this quote, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg.

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ABerkes: fixed broken links to DLC and Ford

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-	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress: [http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/008/0500/0515.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/008/0500/0515.jpg]. A transcription of this letter from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available at [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0054.05#hd_lf054-05_head_086 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0054.05#hd_lf054-05_head_086].</ref>	+	"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<ref>[[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']] 12:356. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page008.db&recNum=513. A transcription of this letter from [[Short Title List\|Ford]] is available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86685&layout=html&Itemid=27.</ref>

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		+	==See Also==
		+	*[[A little rebellion]]

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