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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.Thomas Jefferson
He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual.
Thomas Jefferson
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements
Thomas Jefferson
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