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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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