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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I cannot live without books.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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