Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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If 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.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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