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No people can be both ignorant and free.

Thomas Jefferson

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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Believe Ignorance Prefer Truth
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Deep Intelligence Silence Talent Value Writing
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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Body Enlight Mind People Spirit
Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Cheap Dear Declutter Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Confidence Fear Respect Strength
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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