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Rule Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they…
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- The dead should not rule the living
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