We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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