The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.Thomas Jefferson
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
Thomas Jefferson
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
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