Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813.
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