Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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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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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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.
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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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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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