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

Thomas Jefferson

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Beneath Bite Discipline Hook Pleasure
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition Men Pain Truth
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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Freedom One Liner Security
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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
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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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Knowledge Learning Lost Man Time Value

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