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 JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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