The tree of liberty...(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. 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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"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[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 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 Ford is available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86685&layout=html&Itemid=27.
Further Sources
Monticello Podcast: 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.
