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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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