A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of … - Thomas Jefferson

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The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.

Thomas Jefferson

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

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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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