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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.

~Thomas Jefferson

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

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

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Delay is preferable to error.

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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