No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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