Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson in Letter to Nathaniel Macon (12 January 1819)
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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