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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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 equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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