Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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 cannot live without books.
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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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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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