Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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