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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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" 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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" Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. "

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" Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. "

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" No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. "

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" I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. "

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

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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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" It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. "

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" All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "

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" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

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" Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. "

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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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" Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. "

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

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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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" I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. "

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" Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. "

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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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" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "

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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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" There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. "

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" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. "

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

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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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" Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. "

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" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "

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" We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. "

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