I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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