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“The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.”

Thomas Jefferson · Government

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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One man with courage is a majority.

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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