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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I cannot live without books.
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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.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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