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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiiting the free exercise therof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." - 1st Amendment from the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them" - Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." - Thomas Jefferson
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not." - Thomas Paine
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." - Thomas Jefferson
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."- 2nd Amendment from the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution
"That government is best which governs least" - Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. "- Ronald Reagan
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot retain it." - Abraham Lincoln
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