The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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