Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. - Thomas Jefferson

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It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Citizens, Earth, Independent, Virtuous

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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.

Constitutions, Gun, Inherent, People, States, Strong Arms

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.

Abandon, Achieve, Freedom, Lose, Security

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.

Democracies Have, Entrusted, Forms, Shewn, Time, Trust

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Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

Kind, Saws, Speech, Spoke, Walked

Richard Allen

Just learn from your mistakes. . and for give yourself. . and better yourself:)

Give, Giving, Learn, Learn From Your Mistakes, Mistake, Mistakes

Joseph Sobran

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

President, Nervous, Should, Probably, Seldom

Ilya Ehrenburg

There is no progress in art.

Art, Progress

Hugh Leonard