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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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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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