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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one ...

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and...

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Thomas JeffersonJefferson: Public and Private Papers

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither lib...

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Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by direc...

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David GraeberDebt: The First 5,000 Years

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ...

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...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...

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Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to t...

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