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" Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. "

Thomas Jefferson

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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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" Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. "

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

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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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" If God is just, I tremble for my country. "

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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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" Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. "

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" I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. "

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

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" I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. "

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

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" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "

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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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" I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. "

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