The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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