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. Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

Lenny Abrahamson

#10. 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

#11. 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

#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. I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Plato

#14. 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

#15. They might be vicious, but they're not invincible.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

Madeline Carroll

#17. Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Marilyn Vos Savant

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

Orrin Woodward

#19. It's more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience.

J. Willard Marriott

#20. Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

Richard Corliss

#21. 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

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

Alexander Pope

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

Thomas Paine

#24. 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

#25. Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity.
It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics.

Toba Beta

#26. I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

J. Cole

#27. Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.

Jeremy Grantham

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

Thomas Campbell

#29. It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.

Henri Nouwen

#30. 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