It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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 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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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