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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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