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" Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. "
Thomas Jefferson
Less
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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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" 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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" Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. "
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" In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. "
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" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "
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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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Free
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Own
" 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. "
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Doing
" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "
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Alone
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" Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. "
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Things
" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
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" If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. "
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Become
Care
" Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. "
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Morality
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" I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. "
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" It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. "
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" An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. "
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Bitterest
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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. "
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" Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. "
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