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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery
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Thomas Jefferson
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government
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Thomas Jefferson
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. – William E. Borah

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Government

Its opportunity. Its opportunity, not a check from government – its opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. – Mitt Romney

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Government

And I dont think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe theres another set of moral codes, but I dont think government has a role. – Clarence Thomas

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Government

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Government

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. – Alexander The Great

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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society – more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. – Emile M. Cioran

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