When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.Thomas Jefferson
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word.
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