Bertrand Barere quotes
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“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.”
-- Bertrand BarereSource : Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.
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“L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants),”
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“In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.”
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“L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).”
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Source : Song: God's Reign, 2014
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“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
Source : Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage
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“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
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Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.
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