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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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