It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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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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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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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