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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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 cannot live without books.
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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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