Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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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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