How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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