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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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