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“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
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“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” During interview with TomPaine.com
Anand_Singh Howard Zinn quotes (American Historian, Author, Professor and Political activist, b.1922)
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
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“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors”
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“It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it”
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“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
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