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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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