With the Blood of 72 virgin (girls)

[JEDI]

From this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31827182#post31827182

"didn't jefferson say something about watering the tree of freedom with the blood of 72 virgins? "


i got a diff image than 72 dead virgin girls

how about u when u read that quote?

 

[BoomerD]

It just made me shake my head at the stupidity of the person who wrote it...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson

Actually, the entire quote is:

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. 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.

Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787), quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy

 

[Corn]

It just made me shake my head at the stupidity of the person who wrote it...



Actually, the entire quote is:

Exactly that.

 

[Miramonti]

n/m

 

[Barfo]

wat?

 

[Joseph F]

The amount of epic failure in Shawn's post is sig-worthy to me.