It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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