The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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 have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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