 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 2004 - 344 sidor
...heard about it from other correspondents, wrote to Madison in another famous letter that he thought "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing,...in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which... | |
 | Scot French - 2004 - 400 sidor
...diplomat from 1784 to 1789, he wrote to his friend and fellow American revolutionary James Madison: I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally... | |
 | Jim Hightower - 2004 - 308 sidor
...it was Shays' uprising and others like it at the time that prompted Jefferson to write to a friend: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. . . . God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." Elizabeth Cady Stanton,... | |
 | Michael Crane - 2004 - 652 sidor
...power than by violent and sudden usurpations." fames Madison "A little rebellion, now and then, is good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.: Thomas Jefferson "Without tradition there is no progress, but endless fresh starts from zero." Erik... | |
 | Grace Roegner Freedman, Princeton Review - 2005 - 312 sidor
...organized a boycott of British goods (E) sold provisions and weapons to local Native Americans 54. "I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then,...in the political world as storms in the physical." The statement above was made by Thomas Jefferson in response to (A) Bacon's Rebellion (B) the War of... | |
 | Robert Gover - 2005 - 398 sidor
...the French Revolution..." Thomas Jefferson captured the mood of this time when, in 1787, he wrote, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,...in the political world as storms in the physical." And the American rebellion was not ended by Cornwallis' surrender. "Even more than their civilian neighbors,... | |
 | Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - 2009 - 138 sidor
...understood the need for both revolution and an authentic constitution. Of revolution, Jefferson said, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is...in the political world as storms in the physical. ... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." Having known armed struggle, this... | |
 | Kerry Emanuel - 2005 - 296 sidor
...joyn'd. -Richard Steere (1643-1721), "On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast" France Gives Up La Floride, 1565 / hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is...in the political world as storms in the physical. — Thomas Jefferson ere it not for a hurricane, France, rather than Spain, might have successfully... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 2005 - 222 sidor
...believed in periodic rebellions as a force for political renewal. As he wrote to James Madison in 1787, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,...necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."9 It is not as well known that he did not think we have a right to impose our ideas and regulations,... | |
 | Jinx Schwartz, Elizabeth Maul Schwartz - 2005 - 298 sidor
...love, unflagging patience, and moral support. Without him, there would be no book. Thanks, y 'all. 'A little rebellion now and then is a good thing,...in the political world as storms in the physical." — Thomas Jefferson Wretches! Soon they will become aware of their folly." — Antonio Lopez de Santa... | |
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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. 
