Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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