He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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