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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Citizen Government Illegal Politics
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
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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Freedom Legal Religion
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition Men Pain Truth
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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Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
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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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
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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Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Cold Hunger Inspirational One Liner Pride Thristy
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
The dead should not rule the living.
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Dead Deep Government Live Politics Rule
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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Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Advantage Circumstances Cool Peace Person
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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According Goodness Human Imperfection Love Perfection
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Gain Government Ground Liberty Progress
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich

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