The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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