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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Progress
Gain
Liberty
Yield
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
War
Rights
Mankind
Open
Republican
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
First
Misery
Office
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Religious
Silence
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Spirit
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Time
Blood
Liberty
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson
Country
Force
Military
Spirit
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Man
Newspapers
Nothing
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Life
Happiness
Care
Destruction
First