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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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