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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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