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 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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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