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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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 dead should not rule the living.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of 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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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