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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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 principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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 governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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