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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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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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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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