Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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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 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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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