We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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I cannot live without books.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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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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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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