Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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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 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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Never spend your money before you have 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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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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