When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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