Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. - Thomas Jefferson

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The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Force, Military, Parent, Principle, War

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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Country, Government, Patriot, True

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

Abandon, Achieve, Freedom, Lose, Security

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.

Democracies Have, Entrusted, Forms, Shewn, Time, Trust

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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

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Will Rogers

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

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Sean Penn

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

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Tom Coburn

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

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Marcus Aurelius

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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