Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLet 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.
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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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