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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

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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 sun...more

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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these lib...more

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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

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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 hea...more

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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care o...more

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I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be sa...more

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the U...more

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.