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You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.


Jefferson Smith

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THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Power is not alluring to pure minds
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON Conscience is the chamber of justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON ...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feeling...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then mo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
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