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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Action Be Yourself Confidence Inspirational Positive
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
Never spend your money before you have it.
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Inspirational Life Money One Liner Patience
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
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Bold Courage Fear Honesty Knowledge Truth
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
Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Cheap Dear Declutter Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Expression Foundation Freedom Government People Protect
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Alone Freedom Government Need Support Truth
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
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
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
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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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
The only security of all is in a free press.
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Freedom One Liner Security
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Future Government Happiness People Politics
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Country Culture Nature Plant Service
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Blessing Country Enjoyment Freedom Liberty People
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
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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Fund Future Money Principle
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ambition Men Pain Truth

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