It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIn 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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 dead should not rule the living.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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