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The only security of all is in a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Difference Friendship Opinion Philosophy Politics Religion
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Change Constitutions Human Institution Law Mind
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
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.
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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Bold Courage Fear Honesty Knowledge Truth
Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Courtesy Gratitude Handle One Liner Respect
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Cold Hunger Inspirational One Liner Pride Thristy
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
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Business Hustle Inspirational One Liner Present Success
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Gain Government Ground Liberty Progress
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
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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Blessing Country Enjoyment Freedom Liberty People
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery
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.
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Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Confidence Fear Respect Strength
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ambition Men Pain Truth
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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
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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DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Expectation Freedom Ignorant
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Civil Enjoyment Religion Right
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
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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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
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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