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" For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. "
Thomas Jefferson
Who
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Free
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" If God is just, I tremble for my country. "
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" I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. "
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" The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. "
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" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "
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" I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. "
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" War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. "
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" The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. "
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" So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. "
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" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
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" All, 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. "
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Oppression
Law
" If 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? "
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Lawyers
Present
People
" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. "
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Trust
Result
" It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. "
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Tranquility
" When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. "
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Europe
Corrupt
" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "
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Where
Government
" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "
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Man
Every Man
Government
" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "
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" I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. "
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Believe
Doing
Doing Good
" Power is not alluring to pure minds. "
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Alluring
Pure
Power
" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "
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Government
Republican
" The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. "
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" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "
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Abhor
Greatest
" There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. "
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World
Truth
Fear
" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. "
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Thing
Watching
Were
" Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. "
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Will
You
" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. "
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Me
Twenty
Injury
" Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. "
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Library
Men
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" We 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. "
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" One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. "
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Though
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