Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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