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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Slavery]
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Soldier]
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Speech]
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Strength]
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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 - [Trade]
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Truth]
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Truth]
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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Truth]
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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Tyranny]
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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 - [Peace]
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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~ Thomas Jefferson - [Pleasure]
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