Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I cannot live without books.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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