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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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" It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. "

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Escape

Dangerous

" Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. "

" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" 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. "

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

" No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. "

" Taste cannot be controlled by law. "

" Delay is preferable to error. "

" 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. "

" Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. "

" The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. "

" 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. "

" As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. "

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

" A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. "

Thomas Jefferson

Spirit

Much

" Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

Alone

Because

" Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. "

" My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. "

" Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. "

Thomas Jefferson

Mankind

Right

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

" I cannot live without books. "

" Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. "

" None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. "

" The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. "