A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/free.html#1yTeMZPLLoQgaSSj.99

Thomas Jefferson

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1066 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1076 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1080 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1109 If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
1081 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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