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• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] 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...
• 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....
• The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army.
  Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country when ever that was reared....
• The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598], Ac
  V, Scene: iv, Line: 120...
• 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....
• I have never been so well pleased, as when I could shift power from my own, on the sholders of othe
  or have I ever been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others....
• False is the idea of utility... that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in i
  hat has no remedy for evils, except the destruction of liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1775...