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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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