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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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