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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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!
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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