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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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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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