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
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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