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An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (Quotation)
Bad government results from too much government (Quotation)
Chain Email with 10 Jefferson Quotations
Democracy is nothing more than mob rule...
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism (Quotation)
Do you want to know who you are?...(Quotation)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty (Quotation)
Every man has two countries - his own and France (Quotation)
Few die, none resign (Quotation)
Government big enough to give you everything you want...(Quotation)
I am a great believer in luck...(Quotation)
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars (Quotation)
If a law is unjust...(Quotation)
If we are to guard against ignorance... (Quotation)
In matters of style, swim with the current...(Quotation)
Information is the currency of democracy (Quotation)
Jewel among the states (Quotation)
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...(Quotation)
Making this wine vine known to the public (Quotation)
Museum of our soul (Quotation)
Near-perfect republic (Quotation)
No duty the executive had to perform was so trying... (Quotation)
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (Quotation)
No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion...(Quotation)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude... (Quotation)
Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...(Quotation)
Superstition of Christianity (Quotation)
That government is best which governs least. (Quotation)
The beauty of the Second Amendment... (Quotation)
The Bible is the source of liberty (Quotation)
The Christian god is a three headed monster
The democracy will cease to exist... (Quotation)
The end of democracy...(Quotation)
The nation was clothed with ample powers... (Quotation)
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government...(Quotation)
The web of mutual obligations between generations...(Quotation)
Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Quotation)
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government (Quotation)
When governments fear the people, there is liberty...(Quotation)
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Quotation)