The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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