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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIn questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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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.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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