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

Thomas Jefferson

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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