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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain o

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. – 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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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

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We dont walk. We overeat because weve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the we is all of us. Its not the government. Its all of us doing this together. – Mehmet Oz

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We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. – Glenn Beck

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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. – Noah Webster

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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