In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Money   
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Power   
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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Character   
Honesty   
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Work: letter to Count Diodati, 1807
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
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Freedom   
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Work: letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Excercise   
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
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I cannot live without books.
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Books   
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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Leadership   
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Journalism   
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Work: Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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Honesty   
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Work: letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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