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" A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

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" Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. "

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" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "

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" Power is not alluring to pure minds. "

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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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" The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. "

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" Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. "

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" I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. "

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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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" When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. "

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" We never repent of having eaten too little. "

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" Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. "

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" It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. "

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" We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. "

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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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" One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. "

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" The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. "

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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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" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

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" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "

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