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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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I cannot live without books.
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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 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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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