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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government result

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. – Thomas Jefferson

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson

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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. – Buffalo Bill

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Most Americans arent the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. – Joseph Sobran

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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. – Herbert Hoover

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. – James Madison

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Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another. – Franz von Papen

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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, Im scared to death. – Curt Schilling

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