Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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 dead should not rule the living.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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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.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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