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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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