When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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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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