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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
4thOfJuly
Equality
Rights
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
Judging
Political
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Defense
Tyranny
Wells
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Mean
Army
Government
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Gun
Government
Southern
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
Order
Practice
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