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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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