I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is alw… — Quoted

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“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”

Thomas Jefferson · Government

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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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