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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Courtesy Hurt One Liner Respect Trouble Yourself
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Alone Freedom Government Need Support Truth
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Bad Government History Politics
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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Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
What 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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle

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