Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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