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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!

Thomas Jefferson

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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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