Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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 you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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