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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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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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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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