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"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here."
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Freedom
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
Nature
"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
Freedom
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."
Politics
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
History
"Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued "which would be your second choice His answer "France."
Patriotism
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
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"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion."
Justice
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."
Politics
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
Liberty
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