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Requires Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
- The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed…
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
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