Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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