How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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