Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt 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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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