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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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