Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. – Ayelet Waldman

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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. – Harlan Coben

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. – George S. Patton

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. – Baruch Spinoza

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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I dont think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. – Charles Kuralt

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