QuoteQuest“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.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays' Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
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Jefferson, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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