On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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