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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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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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 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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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