A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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 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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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