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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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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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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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