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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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