Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON