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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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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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We never repent of having eaten too little.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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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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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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