The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I cannot live without books.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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 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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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