I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 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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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The 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.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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