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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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

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