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.
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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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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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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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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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