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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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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson

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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really dont know whats happening sometimes next week, let alone this year. – Matthew Macfadyen

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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Mans life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – B. R. Ambedkar

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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. – Marya Mannes

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A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it. – Glenn Beck

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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. – Jerry Lewis

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Leaf blowers are excruciatingly lazy loud invasive rudeness, the hot air din of disrespect. – Terri Guillemets #hsp

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