Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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