I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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