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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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