I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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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