There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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