Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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 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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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