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Voting Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
- Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
- The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and…
- The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human…
- The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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