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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
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