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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Art Consist Government Honesty
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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