Thomas Jefferson said, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing”, writing from Paris on hearing of Shays’s Rebellion, an uprising of poor farmers against the Massachusetts state government in 1786.
Jefferson added, “God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”
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Who said, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing”?
Thomas Jefferson said, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing”, writing from Paris on hearing of Shays’s Rebellion, an uprising of poor farmers against the Massachusetts state government in 1786.
Jefferson added, “God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”
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