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• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William S....
• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state.
  A government does not exist to control the citizens....
• The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
  -- Alan Kay...
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God
  because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....