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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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.
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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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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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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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