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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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