Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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