I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having … - Thomas Jefferson

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I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

Thomas Jefferson

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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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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