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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I cannot live without books.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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.
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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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Fund Future Money Principle
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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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