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

" 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. "

" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "

" Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear. "

" How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. "

" No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. "

" 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. "

" We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. "

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

" Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. "

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

" The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. "

" 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. "

" He who knows best knows how little he knows. "

" 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? "

" Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. "

" Never spend your money before you have earned it. "

" When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. "

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

" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "

" Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "