How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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