I know 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 by education.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.