A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
All authority belongs to the people.
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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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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
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