The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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