“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.” –Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Nov 13, 1787 Thomas Jefferson, the author of America’s July 4, 1776 Declaration of Secession from the British empire, was a lifelong advocate of both the voluntary union of the free, independent, and sovereign states, and of the right of secession.  “If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form,” he said in his first inaugural address in 1801, … Continue reading Jefferson Was Right