Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat 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
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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