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
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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