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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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