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• 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. JEFFERSON
• 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 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....
• 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 cannot live without books. -- Thomas Jefferso
• A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferso
• We never repent of having eaten too little." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)