"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-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."
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-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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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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