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 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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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