"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of the government...God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" (72).

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson believed that a key to the success of a republic was frequent rebellions. He thought that death and fighting in the pursuit of freedom is what keeps freedom alive.