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
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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