Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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 principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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