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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as
public property.
Topic: Public Trust
Source: Life of Jefferson (p. 356), said to Baron Humboldt, see Rayner's "Life of Jefferson", p. 356
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
Topic: Reason
Source: None
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: None
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A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: None
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Topic: Reform
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Resignation
Source: None
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: None
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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 inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
Topic: Rights
Source: Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
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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.
Topic: Rights
Source: None
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Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: in his first inaugural address
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Topic: Taste
Source: None
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
Topic: Timidity
Source: None
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: found among his papers after his death
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: None
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Topic: Vigilance
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Wisdom
Source: None
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