The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I 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
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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 buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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