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The dead should not rule the living.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
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
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
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
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alone Freedom Government Need Support 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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dead Deep Government Live Politics Rule
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery
Never spend your money before you have it.
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Inspirational Life Money One Liner Patience
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
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
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Body Enlight Mind People Spirit
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Fund Future Money Principle
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Book Family Friendship Human Life World
Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Care Hustle Inspirational Money Success Take Care
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
No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Addiction Book One Liner Reading
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Inspirational Principle Rock Stand Style Swim
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Legal Religion

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