Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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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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