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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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