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“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
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“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
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“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
― Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
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