I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I cannot live without books.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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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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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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