Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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