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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I cannot live without books.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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 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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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