It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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 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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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