“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Letter to Archibald Stuart http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/skjolly/jeffersonianfederalism.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA837#v=onepage&q=&f=false, Philadelphia (23 December 1791) <br class="br">1790s <br class="br">Variant: I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. <br class="br">Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

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