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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste,

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

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Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper

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