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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
• Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not.
  He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance....
• 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....
• We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal
  hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Righ...
• I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
  -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Benjamin Rush (1800)...
• 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...
• All that I am my mother made me. -- John Quincy Adam
• One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea.
  Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps....