Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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