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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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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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 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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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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