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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Country Culture Nature Plant Service
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Freedom Legal Religion
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Difference Friendship Opinion Philosophy Politics Religion
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Cost Evil Happen Healing Pain Suffering
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
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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Body Enlight Mind People Spirit
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Alone Freedom Government Need Support Truth
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
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.
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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Alone One Liner Reflect Solitude Thinking Travel
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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