> I need help, again.
> Could someone please give me the actual Jefferson quote regarding the 
> Tree of Liberty being nurished by the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Since its context is also interesting, I will reproduce here the
entire letter to Col. William S. Smith, sent from Paris, November 13,
1787.  Not only does Jefferson declare that the blood of patriots and
tyrants is the natural manure of the tree of liberty, he also cautions
that what you read in the press about pro-liberty movements is natural
manure of quite a different sort.

            * * *

   "I am now to ackno[w]ledge the receipt of your favors of October
the 4th, 8th, & 26th.  In the last you apologise for your letters of
introduction to Americans coming here.  It is so far from needing
apology on your part, that it calls for thanks on mine.  I endeavor to
shew civilities to all the Americans who come here, & will give me
opportunities of doing it: and it is a matter of comfort to know from
a good quarter what they are, & how far I may go in my attentions to
them.

   Can you send me Woodmason's bills for the two copying presses for
the M. de la Fayette, & the M. de Chastellux?  The latter makes one
article in a considerable account, of old standing, and which I cannot
present for want of this article. --I do not know whether it is to
yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new
constitution.  I beg leave through you to place them where due.  It
will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America.
There are very good articles in it: & very bad.  I do not know which
preponderate.

   What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter
on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a chief
magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed
towards one: & what we have always read of the elections of Polish
kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for
life.  Wonderful is the effect of impudent & persevering lying.  The
British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and
model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world
has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the
ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more
wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.

   Yet where does this anarchy exist?  Where did it ever exist, except
in the single instance of Massachusetts?  And can history produce an
instance of rebellion so honourably conducted?  I say nothing of it's
motives.  They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness.  God forbid
we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.  The people
cannot be all, & 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.  We have had
thirteen states independent eleven years.  There has been one
rebellion.  That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each
state.  What country before ever existed a century & a half without a
rebellion? & what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers
are not warned from time to time that his people preserve the spirit
of resistance?  Let them take arms.  The remedy is to set them right
as to the 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.

   Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of
Massachusetts: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a
kite to keep the hen-yard in order.  I hope in God this article will
be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.  --You ask me if
any thing transpires here on the subject of S.  America?  Not a word.
I know that there are combustible materials there, and that they wait
the torch only.  But this country [France] probably will join the
extinguishers.  --The want of facts worth communicating to you has
occasioned me to give a little loose to dissertation.  We must be
contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.  Present my respects to
Mrs. Smith, and be assured of the sincere esteem of, dear Sir, your
friend and servant."
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