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THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Determine 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.
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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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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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