In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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