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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Thomas Jefferson

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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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 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.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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