The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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