I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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