In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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