A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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