All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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 things always by their smooth handle.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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