I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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