Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939http://books.google.com/books?id=imMmIlv1G7MC&pg=PA268&q=&f=false#v=onepage&q=&f=false