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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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