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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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Delay is preferable to error.

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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

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