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“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”
Michel de Montaigne
Education
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Law
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Youth
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Liberty
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Consequences
2.
“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.”
Michel de Montaigne
Death
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Liberty
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Philosophy
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Wisdom
,
Human Condition
3.
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”
Thomas Jefferson
God
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Liberty
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Security
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Belief
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National Values
4.
“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
Liberty
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Rights
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Law
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Individuality
,
Freedom
5.
“The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Speech
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Writing
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Freedom
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Protection
6.
“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Education
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People
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Safety
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Governance
7.
“Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Lethargy
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Liberty
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Vigilance
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Society
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Warning
8.
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.”
Thomas Jefferson
Cities
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Morality
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Health
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Liberty
,
Critique
9.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Government
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Change
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Progress
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Philosophy
10.
“Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Nationality
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Freedom
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Politics
,
Global Perspective
11.
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Change
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Society
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Dynamics
,
Philosophy
12.
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Press
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Freedom
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Rights
,
Democracy
13.
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Religion
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Liberty
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History
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Authority
,
Critique
14.
“The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Bible
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Liberty
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Foundations
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Faith
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Cultural Significance
15.
“Light and liberty go together.”
Thomas Jefferson
Light
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Liberty
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Freedom
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Enlightenment
,
Philosophy
16.
“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
Independence
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Debt
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Economy
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Liberty
,
Political Philosophy
17.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Sacrifice
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History
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Revolution
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Patriotism
18.
“I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.”
Thomas Jefferson
Hope
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Labor
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Liberty
,
Progress
,
Optimism
19.
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Thomas Jefferson
God
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Life
,
Liberty
,
Philosophy
,
Spirituality
20.
“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
Liberty
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Conscience
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Resistance
,
Human Rights
,
Social Responsibility
21.
“Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Despotism
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Courage
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Struggle
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Political Philosophy
22.
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
Thomas Jefferson
Despotism
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Liberty
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Transition
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Struggle
,
Political Philosophy
23.
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Inconvenience
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Choice
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Freedom
,
Personal Values
24.
“All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
Equality
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Rights
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Liberty
,
Life
,
Founding Principles
25.
“That government that governs least governs best.”
Thomas Jefferson
Government
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Minimalism
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Efficiency
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Liberty
,
Political Philosophy
26.
“We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarantors of only our own.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Friendship
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Responsibility
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Nationalism
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Global Perspective
27.
“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Servitude
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Choice
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Personal Freedom
,
Political Philosophy
28.
“When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Government
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Tyranny
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Liberty
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Democracy
,
Political Philosophy
29.
“The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
Thomas Jefferson
Government
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Liberty
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History
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Political Philosophy
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Social Commentary
30.
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
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Order
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Society
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Rights
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Political Philosophy
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