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Thomas Jefferson

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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Freedom One Liner Security
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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