All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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 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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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