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Thomas Jefferson Memorial at Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. By Rick Grainger @ Shutterstock.com
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson
(Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787. Boyd, Julian P., ed. Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, p. 93.)