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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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