Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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