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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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