When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the...

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or...

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more...

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more...

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us....

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us....

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the...

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the...