Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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.
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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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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