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• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Declaration of Independence...
• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• 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...
• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent.
  Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers....
• To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when 'tis not in our power to repay it.
  -- Dr. Thomas Frankli...
• Quote #392 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ?
  Let them take arms ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Righ
  An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny....
• In the process of getting our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
  Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred....