Thursday, July 2, 2009

Wisdom from Thomas Jefferson

"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. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them."

Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356

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