We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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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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