History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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