Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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