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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none

Thomas Jefferson

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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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.
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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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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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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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 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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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