"We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government……" — Thomas Jefferson
"We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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More Arming Quotes
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a…
— James Burgh
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a…
— James Burgh
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States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the…
— George W. Bush
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States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the…
— George W. Bush
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically…
— Randall Robinson
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The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a…
— Rand Paul
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And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just…
— Jason Whitlock
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the…
— David Frum
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