When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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