Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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