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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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