He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I cannot live without books.
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