The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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