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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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