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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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