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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all....
• A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferso
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....
• 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...
• 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....
• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• 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....
• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show.
  Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that....
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William S....