Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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