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

Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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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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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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