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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

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We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Thomas Jefferson

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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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