In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The 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
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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 predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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