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• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787...
• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.
  Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half....
• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Madison, 1787...
• 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....
• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views.
  His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot....
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 17 87...
• 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....