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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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