If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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