“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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“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
― A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed
― A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed
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