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.
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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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