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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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