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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to 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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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