Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 dead should not rule the living.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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