Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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