How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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