It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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 dead should not rule the living.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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