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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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