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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I cannot live without books.
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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 principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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 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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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