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 only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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 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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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