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" I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. "

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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. "

Thomas Jefferson

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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. "

" We never repent of having eaten too little. "

" I cannot live without books. "

" 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. "

" The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. "

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

" I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. "

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

" The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. "

" I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. "

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

" If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. "

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

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

" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "

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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. "

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

" I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. "

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

" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "

" 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. "

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

" Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. "

" Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. "

" If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. "

" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

" Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. "

" 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? "

" 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. "