Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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