I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. - Thomas Jefferson

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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

Thomas Jefferson

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

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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.

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.

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Edward Snowden

People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians. "

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Matthew McConaughey

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

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Ann Brashares

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

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