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

Thomas Jefferson

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" The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. "

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" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

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" The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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