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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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