He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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 confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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