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
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I cannot live without books.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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