Thomas Jefferson

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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

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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.

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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