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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the firs

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – 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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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. – David Mamet

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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. – Lysander Spooner

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Its dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. – Edward Norton

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Making recess appointments when the Senate isnt in recess is neither rational nor moderate. Its a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. – John Podhoretz

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I love it when the left and when the president say, Dont try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns. They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. – Rick Santorum

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