Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Experience 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.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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