It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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