Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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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 am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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