No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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