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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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