That government that governs least governs best. - Thomas Jefferson

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My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Thomas Jefferson

That government that governs least governs best.

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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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In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

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When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it. "

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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here.

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