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• 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....
• 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 sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of a wolf.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and third president, Letter to William Stevens Smith [Nov....
• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state.
  A government does not exist to control the citizens....
• 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...
• The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
  -- Alan Kay...
• 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....
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...