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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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