The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. [...]

The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will [never be satisfied] in proportion to the importance of the facts they [fail to understand]. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a [laziness], the forerunner of death to the public liberty. [...]

And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. [...]

~A 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "tree of liberty"

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/tree-liberty-quotation

Asking fellow pepes not to give up hope, to keep the pressure on politicians and in social media, and to protest in person if they can, is nothing in comparison with what our forefathers gave to give us this liberty that we take for granted today. If we allow them to take our right to a fair vote from us, it will have a high cost to get it back