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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.

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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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
I cannot live without books.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Gain Government Ground Liberty Progress
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Cost Evil Happen Healing Pain Suffering
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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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Bad Government History Politics
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Constitution Government Men Politics Scare Touch
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
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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Equality Government Happiness Individual Man Right
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Knowledge Learning Lost Man Time Value
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Necessary Physical Politics Rebellion Storm World
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Beneath Bite Discipline Hook Pleasure
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Difference Friendship Opinion Philosophy Politics Religion
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Confidence Fear Respect Strength

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