I cannot live without books.
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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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