"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."... How can we consider our elected officials "tyrants"? A tyrant is a person who governs oppressively, unjustly, and arbitrarily. Our system does not allow for that. If you do not like your representative, vote them out! Since there are no tyrants here in the USA, that leaves only the blood of patriots. It's not the true patriots, those who serve their country in many different ways, those who strive to make this a better a country for all, whose blood needs to be shed... It's the sancatmonious numbskulls who stand on the steps of the State Capitol and call for seccession and and bloodshed who need to be put down... but, Jefferson does not call for that. His "remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them"