We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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