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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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