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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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