We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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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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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I cannot live without books.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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