Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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