On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIn questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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 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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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