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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
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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Necessary Physical Politics Rebellion Storm World
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Dedication Hustle Inspirational One Liner Trouble
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Cost Evil Happen Healing Pain Suffering
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Calm Courage Liberty Men Prefer Time
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State

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