The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 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 you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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