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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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