I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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