The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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 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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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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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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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