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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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 error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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