When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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I cannot live without books.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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