The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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