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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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What 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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I cannot live without books.
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