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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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I cannot live without books.
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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 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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Never spend your money before you have 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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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