Thomas Murani from New Jersey.
January 6, 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_RebellionIn a letter he wrote to James Madison on January 30, 1787, Thomas Jefferson said in the letter that a democratic government like America’s “has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has its evils, too, the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppression's of monarchy, and it becomes nothing.”
He added:
“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. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
Later that same year, Jefferson penned another famous quote that referred to Shays’ Rebellion:
In a letter to Col. William Smith, dated November 13, 1787, he said:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
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