The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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