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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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 hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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