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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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