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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Courtesy Gratitude Handle One Liner Respect
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Deep Intelligence Silence Talent Value Writing
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Believe Enemy One Liner
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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God Government Injury Neighbor Power Religion
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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Atmosphere Government Liberty Resistance Spirit Storm
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Calm Courage Liberty Men Prefer Time
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
I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Addiction Book One Liner 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
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
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
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fear Government Liberty People Politics

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