I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to … - Thomas Jefferson

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Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

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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.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

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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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