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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

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“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

- Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

- Thomas Jefferson, 1798

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"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."

- Thomas Jefferson

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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution

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“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

- Thomas Jefferson

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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”

– Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

-Thomas Jefferson

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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

- Thomas Jefferson

Editor's Note: Typically, on Martin Luther King Day, I run a quote by MLK. But with the imminent formalization of a fraudulent election in the next 48 hours, I felt that Jefferson was more appropriate for the day.

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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

- Thomas Jefferson

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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

- Thomas Jefferson

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

-Thomas Jefferson

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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

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I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

- Thomas Jefferson