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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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