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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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