He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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