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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Fear Government Liberty People Politics
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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