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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Bold Courage Fear Honesty Knowledge Truth
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
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Courtesy Hurt One Liner Respect Trouble Yourself
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Advantage Circumstances Cool Peace Person
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Bad Government History Politics
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Civil Enjoyment Religion Right
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
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
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition Men Pain Truth
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
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

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