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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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