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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of 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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I cannot live without books.

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

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Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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