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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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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