Sunday, February 14, 2010

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison from Paris

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical," wrote Thomas Jefferson to James Madison from Paris in January 1787, about Revolutionary War Capt. Daniel Shay's anti-tax rebellion in Massachusetts (From Pat Buchanan's post on Human Events).

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