Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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