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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. "
Thomas Jefferson
Spot
Strong
Attachment
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" The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. "
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Take
" 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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Citizen
Soldier
Free
" Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. "
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Library
Men
Professional
" 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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Life
Freedom
Happiness
" As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. "
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Now
Fight
Men
" I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. "
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Single
Month
Myself
" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "
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View
Abhor
Greatest
" 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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Motivational
Want
Doing
" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
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Easy
First
Office
" The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. "
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Human Mind
Mind
Natural
" 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
Become
I Am
Book
" A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. "
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Spirit
Much
More
" The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. "
Thomas Jefferson
Same
God
Life
" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "
Thomas Jefferson
Compel
Sinful
Man
" Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. "
Thomas Jefferson
Health
Say
Reading
" No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. "
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Freeman
Use
Arms
" One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. "
Thomas Jefferson
Never
Though
Occasion
" 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
Dream
Cheap
Hope
" Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. "
Thomas Jefferson
Walk
Walking
Yourself
" Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. "
Thomas Jefferson
Religion
Office
Difference
" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "
Thomas Jefferson
Education
People
Own
" No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. "
Thomas Jefferson
Trying
Place
Right
" One man with courage is a majority. "
Thomas Jefferson
Majority
Courage
Man
" Power is not alluring to pure minds. "
Thomas Jefferson
Alluring
Pure
Power
" I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. "
Thomas Jefferson
Control
Society
People
" If God is just, I tremble for my country. "
Thomas Jefferson
God
Country
Just
" Delay is preferable to error. "
Thomas Jefferson
Error
Preferable
Delay
" When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. "
Thomas Jefferson
Speak
You
Count
" An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. "
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Says
Enemy
Generally
" An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. "
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Men
Will
Town