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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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