The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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 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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I cannot live without books.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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