We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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What 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
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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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