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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
Never spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Inspirational Life Money One Liner Patience
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Citizen Government Illegal Politics
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Country Government Majority Participate Politics
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Bad Government History Politics
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine
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
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Belong People Power Restore
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Atmosphere Government Liberty Resistance Spirit Storm

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

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