"I am opposed to any form of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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“The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.”
“The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
“One man with courage is a majority.”
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“It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.”
“Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.”
“I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.”
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“Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.”
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
“Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.”