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" The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. "
Thomas Jefferson
States
Right
Power
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" Delay is preferable to error. "
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" Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. "
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Friendship
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" We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. "
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" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "
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Only
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" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "
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" I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. "
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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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Angels
Trust
" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "
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Abhor
Greatest
" Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. "
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Liberty
Timid
" Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. "
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Strong
Attachment
" Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. "
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Wish
Policy
" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "
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Country
Age
" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. "
Thomas Jefferson
Me
Twenty
Injury
" We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. "
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Glory
Raise
" Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. "
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Tyranny
People
" It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "
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World
Own
" It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. "
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You
Wealth
Tranquility
" It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. "
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Good
Men
Own
" We never repent of having eaten too little. "
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Too
Repent
Never
" My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. "
Thomas Jefferson
Dream
Cheap
Hope
" 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. "
Thomas Jefferson
Slave
Children
Exercise
" If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. "
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Ignorant
Nation
Civilization
" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "
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Without
Where
Government
" The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "
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Humanity
World
Reason
" 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. "
Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge
Way
Truth
" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "
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Compel
Sinful
Man
" Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. "
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Health
Say
Reading
" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "
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Rest
Government
People
" 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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Thought
Trade
" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "
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He
Alone
Because