And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this … - Thomas Jefferson

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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Thomas Jefferson

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Cloud, Clouds, Country, Liberty, Light, Obscure

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Book, Business, Man, Nothing, Reading, Reads

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Country, Government, Patriot, True

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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Phil Collins

I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets. . . They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.

Apply, Practice, Preach, Recorded, Skills, Thinking

George MacDonald

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist.

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Judith Barrington

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

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Noam Chomsky

Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.

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Astrid Lindgren