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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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