Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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 have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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