Lara Logan has been doing a great series on J6, as I'm sure many know. Along with Revolver News being one of the go to places for analysis of that day.
I had always heard, since a young man, that Thomas Jefferson said the nation needed a new revolution every 20 years, approx every generation. Never looked up the quote, but given how much …
Lara Logan has been doing a great series on J6, as I'm sure many know. Along with Revolver News being one of the go to places for analysis of that day.
I had always heard, since a young man, that Thomas Jefferson said the nation needed a new revolution every 20 years, approx every generation. Never looked up the quote, but given how much the country and its laws have changed since 1776, (the year of the US Declaration of Independence for those taking or had modern Civics classes or lack thereof) maybe we have had them...
From Monticello.org. From Jefferson's Tree of Liberty letter, 1787.
"And can history produce an instance of a 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.[1] The people can not be all, and always, well informed. .....
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
-footnote states this may have been misquoted to say every generation.
Lara Logan has been doing a great series on J6, as I'm sure many know. Along with Revolver News being one of the go to places for analysis of that day.
I had always heard, since a young man, that Thomas Jefferson said the nation needed a new revolution every 20 years, approx every generation. Never looked up the quote, but given how much the country and its laws have changed since 1776, (the year of the US Declaration of Independence for those taking or had modern Civics classes or lack thereof) maybe we have had them...
From Monticello.org. From Jefferson's Tree of Liberty letter, 1787.
"And can history produce an instance of a 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.[1] The people can not be all, and always, well informed. .....
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
-footnote states this may have been misquoted to say every generation.