Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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