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• Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their powe
  hat their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us....
• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Summary View of the Rights of British America...
• We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal
  hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Righ...
• Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in 1786...
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...
• Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate.
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence
  which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights....