"(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 remedy is to set them right as to the 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 its natural manure."
Who said this?
a. Patrick Henry
b. Friedrich Schiller
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Maximilien Robespierre
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Who said this?
a. Patrick Henry
b. Friedrich Schiller
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Maximilien Robespierre
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Thomas Jefferson
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born
April 13, 1743
died
July 04, 1826
gender
male
place of birth
Shadwell, Virginia, The United States
genre
Nonfiction, Politics
about this author
More than a mere renaissance man, Jefferson may actually have been a new kind of man. He was fluent in five languages and able to read two others. He wrote, over the course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters. He was acquainted with nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well. He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman. Though he never set foot outside of the American continent before adulthood, he acquired an education that rivaled the finest to be attained in Europe. He was clearly the foremost American son of the Enlightenment.
Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia on April 13, 1743. He was tutored by...more
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
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