And Jefferson said so, so much more in that letter, notably labeled the "tree of liberty" letter. Here's more of what he wrote below. The common truncation is found towards the end of the quote:
"...Wonderful is the effect of impudent & persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers (my comment: Jefferson also had to contend with the "main stream media" lies of his day) to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.
Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness.
God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state.
What country before ever existed a century & a half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their 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 & 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 & tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Gazeteers, he called them in his day. MSM is what they are now. As for being labeled "in anarchy"... is that anywhere near as certain a dismissal as when Americans seeking proof of Constitutional eligibility are laughed off as "birthers" on one hand, then labeled "dangerous thugs ready for violence" on the other? Jefferson may have written these words two centuries ago... yet they speak to us today.
Jefferson's Tree Beckons...
JG
Oran’s Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: “...[a]...citizen’s actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or SERIOUSLY INJURE the [parent nation].” In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or CONSPIRE TO OVERTHROW the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.
Who is guilty of the above? YOU KNOW WHO!
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. DO YOUR DUTY!
WOW!! That is quite the piece of writing isn’t it? And I agree, it will never be accomplished “peacefully”. This man has NO intention, in my view, of ever leaving the White House. In his perverted mind, America is now HIS to with as he pleases. Probably the most evil President to ever to be “dropped” into office.
With all the Acorn voter Fraud, and all the secrets, I’m not sure if he was even elected. How many millions of illegal votes were there? Who will ever know. And I doubt that he is even worried about the 2010 elections as Acorn is already taking care of that!! Nope, it’s too late for marching with placards. They simply laugh. THEY and HE has the reigns now. Once all the protesters are legally labelled “domestic terrorists” then they can do with YOU (plural) as they see fit. Something must be done before he institutes his own brown shirt army with all the funding and arming needed to keep the King in power. CO