An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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