I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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