The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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