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.
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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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