“No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Thomas Jefferson
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“God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed… what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people…
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.” Thomas Jefferson – letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787
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“No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Thomas Jefferson
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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.” Thomas Jefferson – Notes on Virginia, 1782.
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“If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished…
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“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy,…
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“The only greater [evil] than separation… [is] living under a government of discretion.” Thomas Jefferson – to William Gordon, 1826.
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“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.” Thomas Jefferson
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“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to…
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“RESOLVED: That the principle and construction contended for by sundry of the state legislatures, that the general government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism; since the discretion of…
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson – letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788
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“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my…
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“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” Thomas Jefferson
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“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’…