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"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
People

"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
Mankind

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
People

"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics

"The happiness of society is the end of government."
Happiness

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
Imagination

"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
Law

"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
Politics

"Genius is sorrow's child."
Genius

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
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Personal Development

"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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Personal Development

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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Personal Development

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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Personal Development

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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Personal Development

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."
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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."
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