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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I cannot live without books.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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