The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Experience 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.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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