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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. ↗

— Penn Jillette

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My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

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