WWTJS…. What Would Thomas Jefferson Say?
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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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.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. (read that website) FF
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