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Thomas Jefferson's Nov. 13, 1787 letter to William Smith is the source of his admonition about nurturing the Tree of Liberty, a concept that a good many on the left have a hard time understanding, Maybe if someone who thinks like them were to try? Like Joe Biden ...
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You know Katie,
right after the revolution President Jefferson got on television and
said, Hey! this freedom is not forever if you don't tend to it.
Every twenty years, at least, because gummint festers quickly, you'll
have to forcibly remove people like me who resist, with legerdemain,
taradiddle and back-door connivances all efforts to force us to
relinquish our power over you. Jefferson said - pick up your guns
and shoot the sumbitches if you must, but clean house, or lose your
freedoms. Yes, patriot blood and, alas, the blood of tyrants will
be spilled, but it is that blood which nourishes that Liberty
Tree. It is its natural manure. Say, did I tell you where I'll be hiding when they come for me? I don't want to be fertilizer. If they get the colored guy, I'm president.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Jefferson
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