On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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