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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the go

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. – Thomas Jefferson

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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I say lets go back to a truer use of the word freedom. Lets start with President Franklin Roosevelts Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. – Richard Trumka

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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. Its because Im freelance, and Ive never had a proper job. I dont have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. – Jenny Eclair

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You always fear when youre making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson. – Christina Ricci

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. – Julia Ward Howe

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And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. – Marco Rubio

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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Im incredibly sad that my mothers not here to see my kids and that my kids dont get to know her. And she didnt meet my husband. Thats one of the hardest things. I dont even know how to put that into words. – Stella McCartney

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