What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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