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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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