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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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