I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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