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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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