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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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