I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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