Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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