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“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”

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Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Fear

Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Experience

Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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