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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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