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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#censor #difference #each #office #opinion

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

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I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

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