Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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