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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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