Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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