I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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