The dead should not rule the living.
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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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