It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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But 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.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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