Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our gov

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. – Thomas Jefferson

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. – Rick Perry

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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. – William Howard Taft

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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

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Poor Georgia OKeeffe. Death didnt soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. – Jerry Saltz

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What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? – English Proverb

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