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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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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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