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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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