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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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 much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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