I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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 legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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