"All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power."
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"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character"
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"Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price."
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"This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it."
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"How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots."
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"Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them."
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"A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods."
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"It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and to provide that none shall be inculcated which are incompatible with those on which the Constitutions of this State, and of the United States were genuinely based, in the common opinion; and for this purpose it may be necessary to point out specially where these principles are to be found legitimately developed."
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"Merchants have no country."
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"The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another."
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"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal."
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"Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies"
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"With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive."
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"Light and liberty go together."
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"Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency."
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"The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend."
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"My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them."
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"Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it."
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"If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves."
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"I like to see the people awake and alert."
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