Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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