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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Depend Freedom Healing Liberty Lost
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Alone One Liner Reflect Solitude Thinking Travel
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Calm Courage Liberty Men Prefer Time
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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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
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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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
I cannot live without books.
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Addiction Book One Liner Reading
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Advantage Circumstances Cool Peace Person
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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Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Country Culture Nature Plant Service
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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Equality Government Happiness Individual Man Right
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Fear Government Liberty People Politics

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