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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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