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— Thomas Jefferson"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.
— Jimmy Carter
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