I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

President Thomas Jefferson

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Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.

Thomas Jefferson

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

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