It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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