The Tree Of Liberty Quotes

#1. It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

Toussaint Louverture

#2. You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out!

Christopher Titus

#4. The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

James Madison

#5. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barere

#8. In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.

Victor Hugo

#9. Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.

Leon Uris

#10. A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Orrin Woodward

#11. From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

Thomas Paine

#12. In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

Ronald Kessler

#13. You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

John F. Carlson

#14. In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

Thomas Paine

#15. Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

Alexander Pope

#16. For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Thomas Paine

#17. The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Ronald Kessler

#18. Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Thomas Campbell

#19. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge