Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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