Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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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 hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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