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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas Jefferson
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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