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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

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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
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Advantage Difference Each Other Opinion Religion
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
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Believe Enemy One Liner
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
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
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
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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God Government Injury Neighbor Power Religion
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Alone One Liner Reflect Solitude Thinking Travel
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Inspirational Principle Rock Stand Style Swim
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading
The dead should not rule the living.
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Dead Deep Government Live Politics Rule
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Fear Government Liberty People Politics
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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Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Cost Evil Happen Healing Pain Suffering
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
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
We never repent of having eat too little.
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Eat Food Inspirational One Liner Simplicity Weight Loss
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

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