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" Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. "
Thomas Jefferson
Our
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" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "
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" Taste cannot be controlled by law. "
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Cannot
Taste
" The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. "
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Right
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" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. "
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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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" Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear. "
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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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Independence
Father
American
" Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. "
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Die
Will
" The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. "
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Way
Take
" 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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Angels
Trust
" For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. "
Thomas Jefferson
Who
Best
Free
" We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. "
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Conquest
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Raise
" Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. "
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Liberty
Preservation
Only
" Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. "
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She
Know
Jealous
" The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. "
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Human Mind
Mind
Natural
" If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. "
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Nothing
Principle
American
" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
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Easy
First
Office
" Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. "
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Want
Doing
" No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. "
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Trying
Place
Right
" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "
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Liberty
Country
Age
" It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. "
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Person
Escape
Dangerous
" It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. "
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Believe
Better
Ideas
" No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. "
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Use
Arms
" I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. "
Thomas Jefferson
Believe
Doing
Doing Good
" The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. "
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Educated
Man
Nothing
" No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. "
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Earth
Garden
Gardening
" The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. "
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Country
Force
Large
" Delay is preferable to error. "
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Preferable
Delay
" We never repent of having eaten too little. "
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Too
Repent
Never
" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "
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