No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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