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.
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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I cannot live without books.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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