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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursui... (more Thomas Jefferson quotes)
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Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns |
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Ken Burns - American Lives (Thomas Jefferson / Lewis & Clark / Frank Lloyd Wright / Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony / Mark Twain / Horatio's Drive / Unforgivable Blackness) ~ Sam Waterston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ossie Davis, and Blythe Danner |
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Thomas Jefferson ~ Sam Waterston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ossie Davis, and Blythe Danner |
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Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns ~ Sam Waterston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ossie Davis, and Blythe Danner |
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Biography - Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom (A&E DVD Archives) |