Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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