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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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