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590Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Thomas Jefferson- 0 0 •
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557Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson
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605I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
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611To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
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71In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
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565All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson
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585Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson
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566Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson
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575He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson
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571If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson
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651It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson
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568If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson
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606Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson
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594For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson
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568We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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577Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
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