Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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