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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Darkness Himself Ideas Instruction Lesson Light
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Book Family Friendship Human Life World
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

God Government Injury Neighbor Power Religion
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Enemy One Liner
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Equality Government Happiness Individual Man Right
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fear Government Liberty People Politics
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Change Constitutions Human Institution Law Mind
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Country Culture Nature Plant Service

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