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

Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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