“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
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“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
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“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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