Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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