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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 17 87...
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787...
• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Madison, 1787...
• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.
  Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half....
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferso
• Hospitality to the better sort, and charity to the poo
  wo virtues that are never exercised so well as when they accompany each other. -- Atterbury...
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferso
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso