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"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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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."
"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."
"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."
"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."
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"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."
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