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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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