"I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. "

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"I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering. "

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"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."

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"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty   

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty   

"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

Jefferson, Thomas on freedom
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"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. "

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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."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty   

"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

Jefferson, Thomas on anger
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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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"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on art
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"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on medicine
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"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness."

Jefferson, Thomas on occupation
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"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Jefferson, Thomas on opinions   

"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."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. "

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"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."

Lakein, Alan on achievement
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance."

Flaherty, Edward on love
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on forgiveness
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on giving
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"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

Francis of Assisi, St. on injury
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"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face."

Francis of Assisi, St. on integrity
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"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

Francis of Assisi, St. on jesus christ
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"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

Francis of Assisi, St. on cheerfulness
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"'Tis better to understand, than to be understood."

Francis of Assisi, St. on understanding
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"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

Francis of Assisi, St. on wisdom
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."

Schweitzer, Albert on truth
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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