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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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