Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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