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.
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 put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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