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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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