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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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