Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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