The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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