Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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 cannot live without books.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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