• 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
  American statesman 1743-1826
  

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1. refreshed
2. patriots
3. liberty
4. tyrants
5. natural
6. manure

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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. by : Thomas Jefferson

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