Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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