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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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