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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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 hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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