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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Dead Deep Government Live Politics Rule
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Disease Doctor Future Human Medicine Prevention
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Believe Ignorance Prefer Truth
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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