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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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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