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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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