"The true foundation of republican government is..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
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“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.”
“Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country”
“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
More on Government
“No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.”
“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”
“A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.”
More on Rights
“Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.”
“Suffering gives us no special rights.”
“If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.”