Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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