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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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