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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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