Related:

• Quote #392 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ?
  Let them take arms ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• 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, Letter to William S....
• The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
  -- Alan Kay...
• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state.
  A government does not exist to control the citizens....
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
  From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains....