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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
We never repent of having eat too little.
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Eat Food Inspirational One Liner Simplicity Weight Loss
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Country Culture Nature Plant Service
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Equality Government Happiness Individual Man Right
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Believe Enemy One Liner
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
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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God Government Injury Neighbor Power Religion
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Constitution Government Men Politics Scare Touch
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery

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