I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I cannot live without books.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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