"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." | Quote by: | Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President |
Source: | November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939 |
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