Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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