Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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 is troublesome that one does willingly.
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