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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fund Future Money Principle
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bold Courage Fear Honesty Knowledge Truth
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Disease Doctor Future Human Medicine Prevention
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Action Be Yourself Confidence Inspirational Positive
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Confidence Fear Respect Strength
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bad Government History Politics
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Future Government Happiness People Politics
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading
Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Cheap Dear Declutter Minimalism One Liner Simplicity

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