The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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