Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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 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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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 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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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