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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Cheap Dear Declutter Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Confidence Fear Respect Strength
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
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
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
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Blessing Country Enjoyment Freedom Liberty People
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Business Hustle Inspirational One Liner Present Success
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Difference Friendship Opinion Philosophy Politics Religion
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
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
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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Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Darkness Himself Ideas Instruction Lesson Light
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Action Be Yourself Confidence Inspirational Positive
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Dedication Hustle Inspirational One Liner Trouble
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Country Culture Nature Plant Service
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fund Future Money Principle

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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