I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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