He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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It 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.
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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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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 cannot live without books.
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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.
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