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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath 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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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