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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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