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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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 cannot live without books.
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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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