Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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Those who bear equally the burdens of government should equally participate in the benefits.
Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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 have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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