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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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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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