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Tag: Thomas Jefferson

(1743-1826) U.S. Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President.

Keep rebellion alive

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009April 11, 2022Format QuoteCategories rebellionTags Thomas Jefferson

Strong government

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Thomas Jefferson

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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