Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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 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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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