Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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