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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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