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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 17 87...
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all....
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso
• The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferso
• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Madison, 1787...
• Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferso
• Information is the currency of democracy. -- Thomas Jefferso