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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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