Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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