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" Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. "

Thomas Jefferson

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. "

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" It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Power is not alluring to pure minds. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. "

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" It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. "

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