The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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