help with quotes

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Jace

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I am looking for the exact verbiage of two quotes.

One quote refers to how the liberty tree needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants and good patriots.

The other talks about how oppression sneaks up on us comparing it to the twilight before the darkness.

Does anyone have this?
 
I'll try to provide one. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356


[This message has been edited by G-Freeman (edited September 24, 2000).]
 
Is this the other one you're looking for?


"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." --Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
 
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

From the Jefferson site, powerful stuff.
 
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