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I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Calm Courage Liberty Men Prefer Time
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
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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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Bad Government History Politics
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
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Civil Enjoyment Religion Right
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine

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