Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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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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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 am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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