The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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 more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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