I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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