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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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