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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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 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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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