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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. "
Thomas Jefferson
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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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" 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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" 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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" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "
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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 find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. "
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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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" Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. "
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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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" Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. "
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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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" Taste cannot be controlled by law. "
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" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "
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" Never spend your money before you have earned it. "
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" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "
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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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