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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
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
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Change Constitutions Human Institution Law Mind
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Citizen Government Illegal Politics
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
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
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Dedication Hustle Inspirational One Liner Trouble
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
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
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Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Depend Freedom Healing Liberty Lost
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Disease Doctor Future Human Medicine Prevention
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Gain Government Ground Liberty Progress
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
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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Freedom Future Government Happiness People Politics
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

According Goodness Human Imperfection Love Perfection
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
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
The dead should not rule the living.
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Dead Deep Government Live Politics Rule
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
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
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
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Alone Freedom Government Need Support Truth
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Knowledge Learning Lost Man Time Value

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