Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect 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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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 never repent of having eat too little.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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