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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the peo

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. – Laura Bush

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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I dont go alone. – John Dingell

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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

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