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 JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I cannot live without books.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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