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Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson
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I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson
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I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. – Thomas Jefferson
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The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. – Thomas Jefferson
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson
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Most bad government has grown out of too much government. – Thomas Jefferson
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? – Thomas Jefferson
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. – Thomas Jefferson
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. – Thomas Jefferson
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. – Thomas Jefferson
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard
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If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they’d have a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible. – Tom Hayden
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Fiftyone percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. – Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State wants to live at the expense of everyone. – Fredrick Bastiat
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We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it. – Bill Clinton
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives. – Bill Clinton
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You know the one thing that’s wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. – Bill Clinton
