A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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I cannot live without books.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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 confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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