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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Thomas Jefferson

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
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Dedication Hustle Inspirational One Liner Trouble
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
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
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Care Hustle Inspirational Money Success Take Care
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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Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
We never repent of having eat too little.
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Eat Food Inspirational One Liner Simplicity Weight Loss
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Blessing Country Enjoyment Freedom Liberty People
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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Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
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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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Fear Government Liberty People Politics
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Believe Enemy One Liner
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
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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Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Inspirational Principle Rock Stand Style Swim
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Beneath Bite Discipline Hook Pleasure
I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
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
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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
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
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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Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
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 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
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Courtesy Hurt One Liner Respect Trouble Yourself
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Expression Foundation Freedom Government People Protect

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