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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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