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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." |
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"We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." |
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." |
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." |
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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. |
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Thomas Jefferson
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"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." |
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"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." |
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"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? |
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"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right" |
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