The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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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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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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