The dead should not rule the living.
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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The 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.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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