Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson must have been on the same page at the extreme. The controversial quote by Jefferson in a letter to William Stephen Smith concerning Shay's uprising Jefferson said, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".
True that. Yet contemporary Revolution might be ascribed to a change in the immoral condition of government.
Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson must have been on the same page at the extreme. The controversial quote by Jefferson in a letter to William Stephen Smith concerning Shay's uprising Jefferson said, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".