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
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So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a twopenny duty on tea unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it changes the condition of all its inhabitants.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to its laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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