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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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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.
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