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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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