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  • Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

    War   Circles   Paris  
  • From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

    Cheer   Freedom   Blow  
    Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11
  • In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

    Patriotic   Light   July  
    Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”
  • The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

    Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.
  • For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

    Brother   Tree   Liberty  
  • 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.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • I have sworn upon the altar of god.

    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
  • The people cannot be all, and 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 lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. 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.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268
  • I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

    Change   Religious   Men  
    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
  • What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its 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 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.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268
  • A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

    Tree   Liberty   Soil  
    Twitter post from Jan 12, 2016
  • The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  • God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

    Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.318
  • Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

    Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.66, Courier Corporation
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