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Posted on December 10, 2025December 9, 2025

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”—Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist, 1811-1884 (also attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

Posted on October 24, 2020

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, 1743-1826

Posted on October 2, 2019November 12, 2019

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, 1743-1826

Posted on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”—Thomas Jefferson, US President, 1743-1826

Posted on January 16, 2017January 16, 2017

“I cannot live without books.”—Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 10, 2017January 10, 2017

“Delay is preferable to error.”—Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

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