It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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