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" War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. "

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. "

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" Be polite to all, but intimate with few. "

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

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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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" An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. "

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

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" 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. "

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" One man with courage is a majority. "

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" Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? "

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" Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. "

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" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

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

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" We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. "

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" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "

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" We never repent of having eaten too little. "

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" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. "

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" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "

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

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" I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. "

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" Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. "

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" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

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