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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.... [P]ublic employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one’s family and affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

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I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

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