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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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