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.
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 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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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.
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I cannot live without books.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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