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 JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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